What is Billy Apple?
[[File:Billy Apple 2018 (cropped).jpg|right|200px]] '''Billy Apple''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|ONZM}} (born '''Barrie Bates''';<ref>Tilman Osterwold, ''Pop Art'', Taschen, 2003, p78. {{ISBN|3-8228-2070-9}}</ref> 1 January 1935{{spnd}}6 September 2021) was a New Zealand artist. Most of his works focused on [[pop art]] in the 1960s and with the [[Conceptual Art]] movement in the 1970s. He worked with [[Andy Warhol]] and other pop artists. His work is part of the permanent collections of the [[Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa]], [[Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki]], the [[Christchurch]] Art Gallery, [[Te Puna o Waiwhetu]], [[The University of Auckland]], and the SMAK/[[Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst]]. He was born in [[Auckland]], New Zealand. Apple died on 6 September 2021 in Auckland from a short-illness, aged 86.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-09-05|title=Artist Billy Apple dies after short illness|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/arts/126293212/artist-billy-apple-dies-after-short-illness|access-date=2021-09-05|website=Stuff|language=en}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * {{Official website|http://www.billyapple.com}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Apple, Billy}} [[Category:1935 births]] [[Category:2021 deaths]] [[Category:New Zealand artists]] [[Category:People from Auckland]] {{bio-stub}}