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Billy Apple

Billy Apple (1935 - 2021) was active/lived in New York / New Zealand.  Billy Apple is known for Multi-media conceptual art, sculpture.

"Billy Apple, Artist Who Was His Own: Life’s Work, Dies at 85." Obituary, The New York Times, by Penelope Green, October 7, 2021

Born Barrie Bates in New Zealand, he became Billy Apple in London, embarking on a long career that marched through art explorations, from Pop to conceptual to self-branding.

Over his long, provocative career, the artist Billy Apple changed his name, registered it as a trademark, branded products with it, had his genome sequenced and, finally, arranged to have his cells extracted and stored so that they might survive forever even if he could not. He died on Sept. 6 at his home in Auckland, New Zealand, at 85.

The cause was esophageal cancer, said Mary Morrison, his wife and collaborator.

He was born Barrie Bates in Auckland but became Billy Apple in London after graduating, barely, from the Royal College of Art in 1962, one of a rebellious cohort that included David Hockney and R.B. Kitaj.

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