Ceramic Poppies Tour 2017

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.

Ceramic poppies tour 2017.

The dramatic sea of ceramic poppies that proved such a haunting sight at the tower of london are going on tour across the uk. 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. The ceramic poppy tour of the uk ends in 2018 one hundred years after wwi ended. The original display by artist paul cummins and theatre director tom pi.

Weeping window and wave have now become part of the imperial war museums collection. 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. On a sunny day the blue sky cleaned up stone buildings and red of the poppies contrast wonderfully. 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.