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Bates conceived a new artistic persona and on Thanksgiving Day, November 22, 1962, he bleached his hair and eyebrows with Lady Clairol Instant Cremé Whip and became Billy Apple. [9] He announced his self-branding name change publicly in 1963 in his first solo show – Apple Sees Red: Live Stills – at Victor Musgrave's Gallery One, London. He moved to New York City in 1964. [10] [2] I was winding him up saying, “My job’s done now so I’m going to put some effort in and I’m coming for you!” Clifford, Andrew (16 June 2004). "Tales of Gold: The Tale of Ray, at Artspace". NZ Herald . Retrieved 23 October 2012.

Reversing the original 1964 idea of taking the supermarket into the art gallery, Billy Apple produced an artwork with the purpose of selling it in supermarkets. His Granny Smith green and Fuji red Billy Apple® branded cider sold across New Zealand for a total of five years in every supermarket belonging to NZ’s main chain, New World and by many boutique retailers. a b c "Portrait of an artist: Billy Apple". New Zealand Herald. 14 March 2015 . Retrieved 15 September 2021.

Ground-breaking' New Zealand artist Billy Apple dies aged 85". The Guardian. 6 September 2021. Archived from the original on 6 September 2021 . Retrieved 6 September 2021. In 2018, Apple was named as an Icon by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand, an honour limited to 20 living New Zealanders. [55] Death [ edit ] 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. Press release: Howard Wise Gallery: Exploring the New". Archived from the original on 1 July 2013 . Retrieved 12 June 2013. 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

A pivotal event was the 1964 exhibit "The American Supermarket", a show held in Paul Bianchini's Upper East Side gallery. The show was presented as a typical small supermarket environment, except that everything in it — the produce, canned goods, meat, posters on the wall, etc. — was created by six prominent pop artists of the time, including Billy Apple, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, Jasper Johns and others. I don’t think he realised how good he was. He was very good at rugby, it was at a good level with Cross Keys and Neath and that’s when I really got to know him. I know I’m never going to be world champion because of my age, although you never know… But I just want to have a good go. My aim is to be on TV for one more time. Wenman, Eleanor (9 May 2018). "Five top Kiwi artists earn the title of Icon from the New Zealand Arts Foundation". Dominion Post . Retrieved 6 September 2021. His assumed name, Apple said, was “like Colonel Sanders … I didn’t need to look outside myself for subject matter, the art was about building the brand.”

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Bates made his PDC televised debut at the 2003 UK Open reaching the third round. In 2005 he narrowly lost a last-32 match to Lionel Sams at the UK Open and made a superb run to the final in 2006 before losing to Raymond van Barneveld. Apple was one of the artists who pioneered the use of neon in art works. This is seen in the 1965 exhibitions Apples to Xerox and Neon Rainbows, both at The Bianchini Gallery. Then in 1967, the exhibition Unidentified Fluorescent Objects (UFOs), which showed a collection of neon light sculptures, was held at the Howard Wise Gallery, a fore-runner to the organisation Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI). One of Apple's UFO's was included in a 2013 exhibition that reconsidered the influence of Howard Wise Gallery. His success at events away from the television cameras during 2006 helped him to win the award of "Best Floor Player" at the first PDC Awards Dinner. It refers to the non-televised events which feature many boards alongside each other on a smaller arena floor.

There is also work by New Zealand pop artist Billy Apple, Chinese art including a Cultural Revolution poster courtesy of the Ashmolean Museum, and a new commission by Anglo-French artist Anne Rook who has created a body of work which looks at the iconography associated with varieties of apples. Hopefully it will be healed before then and I can play in the World Darts Trophy but we'll wait and see, and I'm not going to the Players Championships in Atlanta and Windy City. At The American Supermarket, a group exhibition in 1964 at the Bianchini Gallery in New York, Apple displayed a series of prints advertising red and green apples. The same show saw Warhol selling autographed cans of Campbell’s Soup and Claes Oldenburg’s plaster sweets and biscuits for sale. 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.World number two Raymond van Barneveld went down 6-3 to Adrian Lewis in the second round in his first outing of the year on the PDC ProTour. 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) I rung him the morning after and said to him, “Alright world number one and world champion,” he said, “Doesn’t it sound good?”