Who Made The Ceramic Poppies

Daily mirror if every one is purchased it could raise 15million.

Who made the ceramic poppies. Created by artists paul cummins and tom piper 888 246 ceramic poppies progressively filled the tower s famous moat between july and november 2014. The display is being planted at the tower of london. Each poppy represented a british military fatality during the war. The ceramic artist was paul cummins with conceptual design by the stage designer tom piper.

A team of 50 people at paul cummins ceramics in derby have been working since january to produce the flowers. Blood swept lands and seas of red by paul cummins features thousands of ceramic poppies pouring out of the tower of london image. Our team at the pottery made 97 500 of the ceramic poppies that stood in the moat at the tower to mark the 100 year anniversary of the beginning of world war one. John mclellan rex making nearly one million ceramic poppies is a long process.

For paul cummins the acclaimed ceramic artist has barely completed 15 per cent of his poppy invasion of the tower of london. In 2014 the tower of london will be commemorating the centenary anniversary of the outbreak of the first world war through a major art installation in colla. Whichford pottery are proud to have been a part of making the thousands of poppies for the installation blood swept lands and sea of red for the tower of london in 2014. It commemorated the centenary of the outbreak of world war i and consisted of 888 246 ceramic red poppies each intended to represent one british or colonial serviceman killed in the war.

21 688 people volunteered to install the poppies. I didn t stop talking until a meeting had been agreed the tower moat filled with poppies. Over 40 000 poppies planted where are the poppies now sought to reunite digitally the 888 246 ceramic poppies from artist paul cummins and designer tom piper s 2014 installation blood swept lands and seas of red originally staged by historic royal palaces at hm tower of london in 2014.