11/04/2023

Schools across the UK have been on the edge of their seats waiting for the winners of the national Coronation Benches competition to be announced.  Historic Royal Palaces can reveal that fifteen winners have been selected from over 1,500 fantastic entries, to be developed with global public art producers Wild in Art and installed at the Tower of London during the Coronation celebrations. Children and young people from across the country have designed their own illustrated Coronation benches, exploring their…

30/03/2022

Photo credit: Alex Kozobolis Contemporary composer Erland Cooper, who frequently collaborates with natural elements, has been commissioned to create an original piece of music to soundtrack the floral transformation of The Tower of London. Entitled Superbloom, the forthcoming installation celebrates the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen this year. The project, marking Her Majesty the Queen’s 70 years on the throne, is named after a rare and incredible natural phenomenon, where whole landscapes are miraculously transformed into sheets of…