SBS Dateline | The Art of Politics

With a floating island made out of stainless steel and a ‘celestial trumpet’ calling to the skies, a rural corner of New Zealand’s North Island has become the unlikely home of one of the world’s major sculpture collections.

There are almost two dozen works of art nestling around ‘The Farm’ in the Kaipara countryside, owned by wealthy businessman and hard-line economic rationalist Alan Gibbs.

Almost all of them were commissioned especially for the collection. The sculptors featured include Richard Serra, Anish Kapoor and Zhan Wang.

To see the amazing sight, captured on camera by video journalist Amos Roberts, and to find out why Alan Gibbs thinks New Zealand is run like communist Cuba, watch Dateline's report.

You can also find out more about the sculptors and their work in our photo gallery.

Photo (Richard Serra sculpture): Alan Gibbs