ROYAL Armouries Fort Nelson is busy preparing to present Wave by artist Paul Cummins and designer Tom Piper at its site on Portsdown Hill, as part of the final year of 14-18 NOW’s UK-wide tour of the iconic poppies.
The sculpture will be at Fort Nelson until June 24.
The presentations by 14-18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First World War centenary, give people across the UK the chance to experience the impact of the ceramic poppy sculptures in a range of places of particular First World War resonance.
The tour has been made possible by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the Backstage Trust, Clore Duffield Foundation and the National Lottery.
Wave and Weeping Window are from the installation Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red.
The installation was originally at the Tower of London from August to November 2014 where 888,246 poppies were displayed, one for every British or Colonial life lost at the Front during the First World War.
Together, the sculptures Wave and Weeping Window are made of more than 11,000 poppies. At the end of the tour they will become part of the permanent collections at Imperial War Museums.
For details, visit the website at: www.royalarmouries.org/event/poppies-wave