![]() The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Artists Chris and Jennie Dennett told Dorothy’s story then the children created a collaborative portrait using Andy Warhol’s portraiture style in a pixelated format. In October 2021, a 2-day workshop was held at Fairfield Primary School, with 120 children in Years 4 and 6. Kirkgate ran a series of workshops at the Kirkgate Centre, schools and community centres across West Cumbria for children and adults to give people a go at creative writing, making their own portraits of Dorothy, and handcrafting wildflowers such the Wordsworths’ famous daffodils which are such a feature of springtime in Cockermouth. She posed in period dress, drawing on a painting of Dorothy that is part of the Wordsworth collection at Rydal Mount where Dorothy died aged 83. The work is based on a photograph of Jessie Binns, of Greysouthen, near Cockermouth, Senior Programming and Partnership Officer at the National Trust in the North Lakes. ‘She’s then been laser-etched onto Perspex sheets and up-lit with LED lights so as you move in front of the sculpture a 3D portrait of Dorothy is revealed – a woman in words.’ ‘That inspired us to create her image using her journal entries and poems, with each letter varying in size to form a pixel of the image. ‘There are very few portraits of Dorothy so we know her best through her words,’ said Chris Dennett. ![]() The portrait is a light installation installed on a temporary plinth in the middle of Cockermouth’s Main Street near the Georgian house where Dorothy was born on Christmas Day 1771.ĪrtFly, the Ulverston-based art practice of husband and wife team Chris and Jennie Dennett, designed and made the installation ( visit ArtFly website here) in collaboration with several other Cumbrian businesses and organisations. We commissioned a new ‘Portrait of Dorothy’ artwork representing Dorothy Wordsworth as part of Cockermouth town centre Christmas lights switched on in November 2021 and now displayed at Wordsworth House. In addition to funding for this year-long project from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Kirkgate would like to thank Allerdale Borough Council, Cockermouth Town Council, Metalcraft Ltd., Ashley Family Foundation and the Slater Trust. Her values and close observations and love of nature and the Lake District landscape made her an early environmentalist. She was acknowledged by her brother, poet William Wordsworth, as one of his most important collaborators. Thanks to National Lottery players, Kirkgate is celebrating the life and works of Cockermouth’s most famous daughter, poet and diarist Dorothy Wordsworth, in her 250 th year.ĭorothy was born on Christmas Day 1771 at Wordsworth House on Main Street.
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