Billy Apple®: Life/Work

Billy Apple (born Barrie Bates in Auckland, 1935) is New Zealand's most internationally significant living artist and a pioneer of pop and conceptual art. At the Royal College of Art in London from 1959–62, Apple studied with key contemporaries – notably David Hockney – and staged one of the earliest solo exhibitions in the new ‘pop' art after changing his name, in 1962, to ‘Billy Apple'. In 1964 he moved to New York. There, he worked as an art director, developed his art, exhibited extensively