The art installation Bloodswept Lands and Seas of Red was first seen at which building in 2014?
Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red was a public art installation created in the moat of the Tower of London, England, between July and November 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. The ceramic artist was Paul Cummins, with conceptual design by the stage designer Tom Piper. The work's title was taken from the first line of a poem by an unknown soldier in World War I.
Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red The work's title came from a poem discovered by Cummins and was used by Piper as the inspiration for his conceptual design. It was written by an unknown World War I soldier from Derbyshire, who joined up in the early days of the war and died in at the Front of the First World War. The poem begins: "The blood swept lands and seas of red,/ Where angels dare to tread / ... ". The poem was contained in the soldier's unsigned will, found by Cummins among old records in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. The work was created by Paul Cummins Ceramics