Installation by Paul Cummins Ceramics Limited in conjunction with Historic Royal Palaces, Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red – poppies and original concept by artist Paul Cummins and installation designed by Tom Piper. The following websites may be of interest: Image ©Victoria and Albert Museum, London/Paul Cummins Ceramics Limited Paul Cummins (artist, original concept) Tom Piper (installation design). Stamped, modelled and glazed earthenware attached to bright steel rods 16 ceramic poppies from ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’, Tower of London, 2014. All the poppies from the Tower of London installation were sold and proceeds were given to six Services charities. The combined visual impact of such a vast number of poppies, each one representing a British or Allied military fatality, caused many to reflect quietly on the scale of lives lost. Over 5 million people came to see the 888,246 flowers which were gradually ‘planted’ by thousands of volunteers throughout the exhibition period. Our poppies formed part of the poignant, dramatic and phenomenally successful installation Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red by Paul Cummins MBE and Tom Piper MBE, which was sited in the dry moat of the Tower of London between 5 August and 11 November 2014. Image ©Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Joseph Cribb (1892-1967)Ī.4-1999 Purchased by staff subscription from Eric Gill Memorial tablet to the 16 members of V&A Museum staff killed in the First World War.Įric Gill (1882–1940) with H. The names of the staff members are recorded on a memorial tablet in the Cromwell Road entrance to the Museum. The Museum acquired the poppies for its permanent collections in memory of the 16 members of V&A staff who died in the First World War. They can be found in the Members’ Reception just up the stairs from the west end of the Hintze Sculpture Gallery. If you are in South Kensington between now and Remembrance Sunday, 11 November 2018, do come into the V&A to take a last look at our 16 ceramic poppies which have been on display throughout the final year of the First World War centenary.
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