 Billy Apple is an artist whose work is associated with the New York school of Pop Art in the 1960s and with the Conceptual Art movement of the 1970s. He has collaborated with the likes of Andy Warhol. Apple was born Barrie Bates in Auckland in 1935. In 1959 he left New Zealand on a National Art Gallery scholarship. He studied at the Royal College of Art, London, from 1959 until 1962, the foundation for British Pop Art. In
1962 he changed his name to Billy Apple. He moved to New
York in 1964 with friend David Hockney In 1969 he established Apple, one of the first alternative spaces in New York. During the 1970s, he returned to New Zealand twice, with support
from the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council, each time exhibiting in spaces
throughout the country. He returned to New Zealand, permanently in 1990.
He lives in Auckland.
In
2008 he was the subject of a feature length documentary called "Being
Billy Apple In 2009 the Adam Art Gallery in Wellington staged the survey exhibition
Billy Apple: New York 1969-1973 Later in 2009 Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art in Amsterdam presented
a major exhibition of his work in two parts. |
Billy APPLE |