Sales of artwork donated by internationally-renowned artist Billy Apple have resulted in a $10,000 windfall donation to the New Zealand AIDS Foundation’s Auckland Burnett Centre. Fifty Art For AIDS screenprints on white acrylic were originally produced especially for the NZAF by Billy Apple for World AIDS Day 2000. The Foundation says several were sold during last year’s Art Aid auction, an independent fundraiser held by the Art Aid Foundation Trust. Apple is one of New Zealand’s best-known artists, emerging to prominence through the New York school of Pop Art in the 1960s and the Conceptual Art movement in the 1970s. The NZAF has expressed its appreciation of his "generous donation of artwork which has enabled this sum to be raised.” The Burnett Centre opens in new premises next Monday 35 Hargreaves St in College Hill. The expanded space has been designed to help ease increasing demands on HIV support services in Auckland. One gay or bisexual man is diagnosed with HIV every five days in New Zealand, with the majority of these diagnoses occurring in the Auckland region.