PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL, PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND - "WAVE" August 23 - November 19, 2017
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Since 2015, Paul Cummins and Tom Piper's traveling poppy sculptures "Wave" and "Weeping Window" have traveled around the UK, honoring those lost in WWI. Composed of several thousand ceramic poppies, the two separate structures were initially conceived as a part of the "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red" installation at the Tower of London in 2014. Now, as the "Wave" prepares to make its final stop, take a look back at the landscapes that have been transformed by these two works of art.
YORKSHIRE SCULPTURE PARK, WAKEFIELD, ENGLAND - "WAVE" September 5, 2015 – January 10, 2016
Nigel Roddis
ST. MAGNUS CATHEDRAL, KIRKWALL, SCOTLAND - "WEEPING WINDOW" April 22 - June 12, 2016
Michael Bowles
CAERNARFON CASTLE, CAERNARFON, WALES - "WEEPING WINDOW" October 12 - November 20, 2016
Richard Stonehouse
THE SILK MILL, DERBY, ENGLAND - "WEEPING WINDOW" June 9 - July 23, 2017
Richard Stonehouse
HEREFORD CATHEDRAL, HEREFORD, ENGLAND - "WEEPING WINDOW" March 14 - April 29, 2018
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ROYAL ARMOURIES: FORT NELSON, PORTCHESTER, ENGLAND - "WAVE" April 13 - June 24, 2018 (Pictured from left: Paul Cummins, Director of 14-18 NOW Jenny Waldman, and Tom Piper stand in front of the "Wave" at Fort Nelson in Portchester.)
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