Over 1,319 Kickstarter backers contributed £123,000 to bring Ai Weiwei’s monumental installation, Tree, to RA courtyard. Made from reassembled pieces of dead wood from the hills of southern China, Tree has been likened to the modern Chinese nation, where ethnically diverse peoples have been brought together to form ‘One China’, a state-sponsored policy aimed at protecting and promoting the nation’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.