Gibbs Farm

"‘What’s it made of?’ I heard an art dealer ask a businessman standing beside him, as they gazed at the extraordinary new sculpture by Anish Kapoor at Gibbs Farm. The businessman laughed. ‘Money,’ he said."

"*Te Tuhirangi Contour* was part of a much wider project: the transformation of a once scruffy property in a neglected corner of the Auckland region into ‘Gibbs Farm’, a private folly of magnificent proportions that was fast becoming a sculpture park of international significance. Together with his remaining family in Auckland, notably Amanda, Noel Lane and their children, The Farm continued to bind Gibbs to New Zealand. It drew him home each summer and, alongside the amphibians, travel and reading, provided a steady stream of fresh stimulus and challenge that sustained him."