• The following editions from 50 are available: 28, 31, 34, 37, 38, 41, 42, and 47.

Billy Apple is represented by Starkwhite in New Zealand.

To commemorate Red Friday and World AIDS Day, Billy Apple has donated his work Art for AIDS, with 100% of the proceeds to go to the New Zealand AIDS Foundation. Editions will be available to purchase on the day and afterwards.

If you are interested in purchasing, please email julia.craig@auckland.ac.nz.

New Zealand AIDS Foundation Art Project by Billy Apple

This Billy Apple Art Project incorporates the principles of Euclid’s Golden Section with the organisational structure of the New Zealand AIDS Foundation. The Foundation oversees four regional Centres that offer support to people that have been touched by HIV/AIDS.

  • Burnett Centre, Auckland (established 1986)

  • Te Puawaitanga O te Ora, Hamilton (established 1990)

  • Awhina Centre, Wellington (established 1987)

  • Ettie Rout Centre (established 1987)

Collectively, these Centres have been established for a total of fifty years, which provides the conceptual basis for Apple’s Project.

In 1993 Apple produced a large painting – ART FOR AIDS. The $10,000 raised by its sale to a private collector was donated to the Bruce Burnett Memorial Fund.

Eight years later, Apple extends the project and acknowledges the Foundation’s four Centres by creating an edition of fifty screen prints on white acrylic. Measuring 145.90mm x 236.07 mm, each is 5.57% of the size of the painting. Each costs $557, 5.56% of the paintings cost. These calculations conform to the golden section ratio of 1.618:1.

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