Ceramic Poppies Tour 2017

The original display by artist paul cummins and theatre director tom pi.

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. 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. On a sunny day the blue sky cleaned up stone buildings and red of the poppies contrast wonderfully. It is the first time it has returned to the capital since it was part of blood swept lands and seas of red at the tower of london in 2014 and represents the culmination of the poppies tour.

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. The dramatic sea of ceramic poppies that proved such a haunting sight at the tower of london are going on tour across the uk. Weeping window and wave have now become part of the imperial war museums collection. But remember each poppy represents a person lost in wwi.