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Over the past two months, around 1000 red felt poppies have been made, most of which are tumbling from a tree outside Estuary Arts Centre in Western Reserve, Orewa.
The installation is a way to remember and honour those who served, and their families.
The poppies resemble large versions of the traditional Anzac poppy and have been made by Estuary Arts volunteers, a group from Evelyn Page Retirement Village and members of the public who attended the Boulevard Arts Fiesta.
Around 68 of the poppies have already been placed in a peace symbol inside the art gallery, but the remainder were attached to a tree outside Estuary Arts on April 20, flowing down the trunk and spilling onto the grass. They will remain there until Anzac Day, after which they can be purchased for a gold coin donation.
The poppies are Estuary Arts Centre’s contribution to the Peace Poppy Project, which is artist Cristina Beth’s expansion of her idea of “planting” fields of poppies on a large scale. It started with an installation of masses of poppies on a traffic roundabout in Titirangi in 2013 and the final and largest installation will be created at the Auckland War Memorial Museum in 2018. Any poppies not sold at Estuary Arts may become part of that final mass display.
