Paul Cummins (born 1968) is an English artist who produces landscape installations using ceramic flowers.In 2010 Cummins was awarded an 'Unlimited' Arts Council England commission.The Paralympic Cultural Festival (or Unlimited Festival) brought hundreds of deaf and disabled artists together, awarding 29 new 'Unlimited' commissions to show work as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad which ran concurrent with the Paralympics to promote disabled artists. Cummins, who has severe dyslexia, is one of the artists with disabilities commissioned by the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, the UK Arts Councils and the British Council to produce works for 'Unlimited'; a programme celebrating disabled artists' work in the run up to and during the London 2012 Olympics. Cummins said:" "I am really pleased that my submission to be one of the Unlimited programme artists has been accepted."He conceived the monumental installation at the Tower of London — Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red — which commemorated British losses in the First World War with 888,246 ceramic poppies. He was himself wounded while creating this work, crushing his hand in an industrial roller, which ripped his middle finger out.He started work as a maker of architectural models and then studied ceramics at the University of Derby's College of Arts. Besides the Tower of London, his clients have included Blenheim Palace.
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