Gibbs Farm is an unusual setting for a sculpture collection.The North Auckland property, a sprawling 1,000-acres, is dominated by the Kaipara Harbor—the largest harbor in the Southern hemisphere. Everything in the property flows towards and eventually into the sea; and every artwork contends in some way with the slide seaward.
Gibbs Farm includes major works by Graham Bennett, Chris Booth, Daniel Buren, Bill Culbert, Neil Dawson, Marijke de Goey, Andy Goldsworthy, Ralph Hotere, Anish Kapoor, Sol LeWitt, Len Lye, Russell Moses, Peter Nicholls, Eric Orr, Tony Oursler, George Rickey, Peter Roche, Richard Serra, Kenneth Snelson, Richard Thompson, Leon van den Eijkel and Zhan Wang. Most works in the collection are commissioned.
“Dismemberment, Site 1,” 2009, Mild steel tube and tensioned fabric, West end 25 x 8m, East end 8 x 25m., Length 85m, Gibbs Farm, New Zealand. Anish Kapoor is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation. Born in Bombay in 1954, he moved to Britain in 1972 and studied at the Hornsey College of Art and Chelsea School of Art Design; and he has lived and worked in London since the early 1970’s. Over the past twenty years his work has been seen in most of the leading galleries and museums. In 1990, Kapoor was awarded the “Premio Duemila” when he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art; in 1991 he won the Turner Prize; in 1997 he was
awarded an Honorary Doctorate at the London Institute; in 2001 was awarded an Honorary Fellowship at Royal Institute of British Architecture; and in 2003 he received a CBE. www.anishkapoor.com
Gibbs Farm is open to artists, educational institutions, charities and the public, by prior appointment only.