Starting with his studies at the Royal College of Art, Billy Apple explored and tested the space between the conception and implementation of an art object or project. [37] For example, when he came to write his thesis presentation, he asked Ann Quin, a close friend of his, to write it for him. [38] He also drew from his early experience in advertising to adapt some of the industry’s collaborative production techniques and began to outsource the making of his own work to highly skilled professionals. [39] Terry Maitland [ edit ] Billy Apple, who has died aged 85, took Pop Art to extremes by registering himself as a trademark. While artistic peers such as Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns incorporated symbols of consumerism into their work, the New Zealander took the name “Billy Apple” when a student at the Royal College of Art. Then I got it in my fingers, but the pain at the start, , I thought my foot was broken. I had it in both ankles, I couldn’t move. Billy Apple was a pioneer pop and conceptual artist who, though born in New Zealand in 1935 as Barrie Bates, reinvented himself in 1962 as 'Billy Apple' after studying graphic design at the Royal College of Art in London. The change in name View Bio, Works & Exhibitions

He shouts a lot, but he’s like that with everyone, he does it to get himself going, it’s not to put anyone off. If he played me, one of his best friends, he’d be exactly the same against me as he would against his enemy. I played in a local pub, it’s only round the corner and at one point it took me two hours to get home. Ovens edged two of the next three to move a leg away from victory at 5-3, but missed two darts for the match in leg nine and a further one dart for victory in the tenth as Bates forced a decider. Billy Apple. Zoë. Gray, Nicolaus Schlafhausen, Monika Szewczyk, Centre For Contemporary Art Wittie De With. Rotterdam: Wittie De With, Centre For Contemporary Art. 2009. pp.9–10. ISBN 978-90-73362-89-5. OCLC 458769322. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: others ( link)

It's great and I'm delighted," said Bates. "It's been a long time since my last win but I'm feeling good and playing well.

He was good enough that people were still after him to play rugby for them. Everyone I talked to was saying how good he was and that he could have gone on further. Tales of Gold, Billy Apple with Wystan Curnow". Artspace. Archived from the original on 9 February 2013 . Retrieved 23 October 2012.

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