Billy Tripp

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William Blevins (Billy) Tripp, born 1955 in Jackson, Tennessee, is a nationally know practitioner of outsider art as well as the author of numerous poems and a novel, The Mindfield Years, published in 1996. ISBN 0-9652238-0-9

Biography and Works

Billy Tripp is the creator of The Mindfield, the largest outdoor sculpture in Tennessee. A work in progress, The Mindfield contains many individual artworks and soars to a height over 125 feet. The latest addition, a huge, spherical water tower salvaged from a factory in Kentucky, was transported and reconstructed single-handedly by the artist.

Billy has given numerous interviews over the years to newspapers, television stations, and radio programs, including National Public Radio. His artwork has been exhibited at the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, Tennessee as well as the Dixie Carter Performing Arts Center (photographic representation), and is documented by the Smithsonian Institution.

[edit] References and Links

• http://billytripp.googlepages.com/home
• http://www.arts.state.tn.us/artsTN/artstnwinter2004.pdf
• http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!312521!0
• http://www.westtnculture.com/mindfieldInfo.html
• http://detour.webdatabases.net/artist_detail.html?ArtistID=10088&ArtID=10088
• http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/local/haywood
• http://www.tast.tn.org/Pages/attrac.html
• http://www.dixiepac.net/tripp.htm
• http://www.studio360.org/yore/show110103.html
• http://www.haywoodcountybrownsville.com/Brownsville/Attractions.aspx
• http://tennesseeguy.wordpress.com/2007/08/16/the-expanding-universe-of-billy-tripp/
• http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=4295419&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.2.1