Ceramic Poppies Tour 2017 Images

The iconic poppy sculpture weeping window opens tomorrow 9 june at the silk mill in derby as part of 14 18 now s uk wide tour of the iconic poppies by artist paul cummins and designer tom piper.

Ceramic poppies tour 2017 images.

This is the final presentation as part of 14 18 now s uk wide tour of the poppies and the sculpture will be on site until 18 november 2018. Weeping window is part of the poppy installation blood swept lands and seas of red which was created to mark the centenary of world war one. In just three weeks 40 000 visited the iconic poppies sculpture which was equivalent to a visitor figure increase of 1 340 per cent on the previous september. Other locations can bid next year to host the ceramic poppies in 2017 and 2018 before they are permanently homed at the imperial war museums in london and manchester.

Volunteers planted 888 246 ceramic poppies in the moat one for each british and colonial fatality during the first world war. It will be on display until 23 july 2017. Stoke on trent has a special relationship to the ceramic poppies as it is where many of them were made. The sculpture by artist paul cummins and designer tom piper is presented by 14 18 now the uk s arts programme for the first world war centenary.

The poppies installation by ceramic artist paul cummins with setting by stage designer tom piper in the dry moat of the tower of london marked 100 years since the start of the first world war. The first venue to host weeping window was woodhorn museum in northumberland in september 2015 which installed thousands of ceramic poppies from one of its colliery heapsteads. Copyspace iwmn wave cascade several thousand handmade ceramic poppies sculptures photographed by a visitor taking pictures on his camera illuminated at night the cascade of poppies falling from the tower of the imperial war museum is a vivid river of red for remembrance sunday 2018. 14 18 now toured the iconic poppy sculptures wave and weeping window by artist paul cummins and designer tom piper during the first world war centenary between 2015 and 2018 the sculptures visited 19 locations around the uk and were seen by over 4 6 million people.

Image caption the ceramic poppies are all handmade. Jenny waldman director of 14 18 now said. Weeping window is a cascade comprising several thousand handmade ceramic poppies seen pouring from a high window to the ground below.