Gravity-Defying Sculptures at Gibbs Farm, North Auckland

12 January 2023

Leon van den Eijkel, Red Cloud Confrontation in Landscape (1996). 25 cast formed and painted concrete cubes. 1750 x 1750 cm. Courtesy Ocula. Photo: Simon Fisher, Ocula Advisory.

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Anish Kapoor, Dismemberment, Site 1 (2009). Mild steel tube and tensioned fabric. West end 2500 x 800 cm, east end 800 x 2500 cm, length 8500 cm. Courtesy Ocula. Photo: Simon Fisher, Ocula Advisory.

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Andrew Rogers, Sentinels (2017). Concrete, 4 columns. 1500 x 80 x 100 cm (each). Courtesy Ocula. Photo: Simon Fisher, Ocula Advisory.

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Neil Dawson, Horizons (1994). Welded and painted steel. 1500 x 1000 x 3600 cm. Courtesy Ocula. Photo: Simon Fisher, Ocula Advisory.

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Andy Goldsworthy, Arches (2005). Pink leadhill sandstone blocks stacked into 11 freestanding arches. Each arch is 700 cm long with each block 140 cm². Courtesy Ocula. Photo: Simon Fisher, Ocula Advisory.

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Richard Thompson, Untitled (Red Square/Black Square) (1994). 4 units of welded and painted steel. 400 x 400 x 570 cm. Courtesy Ocula. Photo: Simon Fisher, Ocula Advisory.

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Gibbs Farm Sculpture Park. Courtesy Ocula. Photo: Simon Fisher, Ocula Advisory.

The Gibbs Farm Sculpture Park Collection brings together some staggering outdoor sculptures in North Auckland.

The vast majority of sculptures commissioned for the park—works by Anish Kapoor, Andy Goldsworthy, and Neil Dawson among other New Zealand and international artists—sit upon, and weave within, the park's rolling hills that overlook the wide expanse of Kaipara harbour below.

In one of the most powerful works on display entitled Dismemberment, Site 1 (2009), Kapoor challenges the temperamental atmosphere of Makarau with an outstretched membrane of scarlet-coloured PVC. Structured by two monumental steel ellipses, Kapoor's sculpture conjures narratives of connection and queries our relationship with surrounding environments.

Sculptures by Leon van den Eijkel and Richard Thompson enrich the scale of Gibbs Farm's rural landscape with stark contrasts of vivid colour and angular forms.

Nurturing a connection between nature and art, Gibbs Farm renders a unique opportunity for visitors to discover the spectacle of gravity defying sculpture in a beautiful landscape.

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