NIROX Sculpture Park
Thirty-hectare former trout farm turned open-air sculpture park with sixty permanent works.
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This guide to NIROX Sculpture Park near Johannesburg starts with a working trout farm in the Cradle of Humankind, and how arts patron Benji Liebmann turned it into an open, unplanned gathering ground for painters, sculptors, musicians and writers to live and work for six to eight weeks at a stretch. It traces two decades of that experiment, as more than four hundred artists passed through and left work scattered across the property's lawns and wetlands. Listen for what you find waiting among the reeds as you walk the thirty hectares.
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