Europe is home to many sculpture parks showcasing classic architecture, but New Zealand is another story. This island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean is home to Gibbs Farm – one of the most unusual sculpture parks in the world.
Entrepreneur and art collector Alan Gibbs started this project in 1991 after buying a huge piece of land in North Auckland. In the years to come, dozens of artists added their towering abstract creations on this property, and transformed it into a collection of innovative oddities.
The scale of the landscape was a huge challenge that these artists had to conquer, because Gibbs Farm takes up almost 1,000 arcs of land.
There is no fee for visiting this unusual attraction, but it’s only open to the public once a month by prior appointment.
“Walking the land, visitors can appreciate how each artist has come to terms in their own way with the gravitational pull that is exerted on everything as the mountains roll into hills and slide into gullies and slope down towards the wide flat expanse of the Kaipara harbor,” reads the description on the official website of Gibbs Farm.