{"id":766,"date":"2016-06-10T22:14:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T21:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikecollier.eu\/?p=766"},"modified":"2020-08-10T22:15:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T21:15:25","slug":"seven-ways-up-wordsworth-trust-grasmere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/06\/10\/seven-ways-up-wordsworth-trust-grasmere\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Ways Up: Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

June 2016 <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simon Bainbridge, Brian Thompson, Mike Collier, Inge Panneels, Andrew Richardson and Sally Bushell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seven Ways Up was a multidisciplinary project, a creative collaboration, bringing together artists, designers and literary academics to explore and interpret the rich history and literature of mountain pathways, creating new visions of literary mountain climbs. Inspired by William Wordsworth\u2019s account of his night-time ascent of Snowdon (an event that became the climax of his autobiographical epic, The Prelude<\/em>) the project\u2019 s own journey began as a literal climb; tracing the poet\u2019s words and footsteps to the summit of Snowdon\u2019s peak. This initial journey represented an important starting point from which further exploration into the historical and literary background to the climb was undertaken. The seven ways makes reference to the main routes to the top of Snowdon, tracks well known by the time of William Wordsworth\u2019s climb, and hint at the variety of individual pathways that writers, artists and poets may take in pursuit of their own summit experience. The exhibition was held at the Wordsworth Museum in July 2016 and represents the individual creative pathways followed as part of the group\u2019s on-going creative journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n