Marks the mutually-vital and ongoing Irish-British cultural interaction exemplified by Yeats (and Swift, Goldsmith, Sheridan, the Brontës, Thos.Acknowledges migrant communities’ vital role in creating/enriching Britain’s cultural life while benefiting from London as a network/hub in which to develop their own art, ideas and identity.Emphasises the importance of fellow-artists and supportive arts-communities in catalysing creativity.Validates the input of poets and poetry to public life, Promotes contemporary art, Improves the quality of our public spaces, Enhances the local environment. Invites Londoners and visitors to discover/explore a major 19c crucible of 20c culture.Encourages the West London community to take pride in the area’s unique cultural and artistic heritage.Inspires local young people, students and schoolchildren to enjoy, engage with, and participate in, poetry, drama and visual arts.Highlights Bedford Park’s role in fostering Yeats’s Irish poetic genius.Honours a local resident, a schoolboy from a migrant family, who went on to become a major international literary figure.Celebrates poetry and drama, and Yeats’s poems and plays in particular.What the Artwork Project Celebrates…Ĭonrad Shawcross’s #EnwroughtLight artwork and our arts/education/heritage poetry-places trail “Discover Bedford Park with WB Yeats” together create a rich visitor-experience which… Though many authors, artists, actors, architects and others made Bedford Park their home after achieving fame, Yeats is significant in having been brought up here and inspired into creativity - and international fame, along with his brother Jack B Yeats - by its uniquely Utopian, progressive, aesthetic Arts & Crafts ambience. Yet, until now, the only poet brought up in England to win the Nobel Prize has had no monument in England. Yeats spent most of his London years here with his Irish migrant family in Bedford Park (Chiswick, West London), the world’s first-ever garden-suburb, whose diverse, Bohemian, artists’-colony residents, fostered the young poet’s exceptional creative genius.
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