The thing I love about Art World magazine is that they always manage to cut through the terrible ordinariness of gallery openings and free champagne (or cask wine, depending on the artist), to reveal what art is fundamentally about: pure passion.
In this month’s issue they feature Alan Gibbs, a Kiwi entrepreneur who owns The Farm, a 1000-acre sculpture park on New Zealand’s Kaipara Harbour.
Gibbs bought the windswept site in 1991. Since then, he has commissioned some epic works by Neil Dawson (my favourite – above), Anish Kapoor (below, top), Andy Goldsworthy (below, centre) and Leon van den Eijkel (below, bottom), amongst others.
We can only hope that Gibbs will one day share The Farm with the public. In the meantime, I would like to thank Art World for revealing the spectacular results of this art lover’s true passion.
These images are fantastic. We’ve got a small olive farm in New Zealand and we’d really love to get some sculpture in some of the paddocks. But we also have cattle grazing so the sculptures would have to be cow-proof!
This guy has alpacas, so his sculptures are at least alpaca proof… not sure about cows though!
Once you’ve seen this pictures, the desire to see these pieces in the wild so to speak is overpowering. When will this ever be open to the public?
I know… maybe we should start a petition for Mr Gibbs… it seems like such a waste!
If you want to visit the farm I suggest you go to:
http://www.rmastudies.org.nz/big-farm-day-out/
Thanks Owen – NZ here I come!