My mum took inspiration from Derek Jarman's garden when she was ill. Here's how it's done the same for many others
Discover the story of Derek Jarman’s garden at Prospect Cottage, Dungeness in the first exhibition to explore the role of the garden in his life and work.
The presenter of the popular BBC series Gardener’s World, Monty Don, tells us about his favourite gardening books, from childhood to today.
A recreation of the cottage where Jarman spent his final days, an exhibition at the Garden Museum creates a response to HIV that is at once personal and political, shining a light on wider issues of institutional homophobia.
Derek Jarman (1942-1994), the English film maker, writer and painter at his studio in the Gorballs, Glasgow c1990 with some of "the most awful paintings he could make". Angry, violent work that raged against his fate. Keith Collins was filming Derek and his visitors that day who included Tilda Swinton.
[Derek Jarman • 1994]
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Prospect Cottage and its garden on the shingle spit of Dungeness in Kent could not have been more of a contrast to the previous three gardens we had visited on our holiday. Pashley Manor, Great Dix…
A few weeks ago I visited Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage in Dungeness. Jarman trained at the Slade School of Fine Art and went on to be a pioneering film-maker, stage designer, sculptor, painter, poet and costume and performance artist. His garden and home have been described as ‘ a living, breathing work of art’ by […]
Inside the mind of Britain’s greatest experimental filmmaker
Wild, honest, riotous, the film-maker’s diary showed me what it meant to be an artist, to be political – and how to plant a garden
We stayed just a few wooden, tarred, black cottages down fromProspect Cottage where Derek Jarman made his amazing against-the-odds-and-AIDS garden in the bleak, inhospitable and wind-blown shingle of Dungeness. This is a small, open garden (no fences, no obvious boundaries)...
In The Curious Gardener, Anna Pavord brings together in 12 chapters - one from each month of the year - 72 pieces on all aspects of gardening. From what to do in each month and how to get the best from flowers, plants, herbs, fruit and vegetables, through reflections on the weather, soil, the English landscape and favourite old gardening clothes, to office greenery, spring in New York, waterfalls, Derek Jarman and garden design, Anna Pavord always has something interesting to say and says it with great style and candour. The perfect book to guide you through the gardening year and, on days when the weather keeps the most courageous gardener indoors, the perfect book to curl up with beside the fire.
A wonderful thing about the horticulture world is that it is small one, so you often meet fantastic people of all sorts. I met Jonny through my friend Tom, the head gardener at Gravetye, who put us in contact through email. Jonny spoke about seeing Plinth et al. and suggested I might be interested
For BLUE NOW, a series inspired by Derek Jarman's “Blue,” actor Russell Tovey shares a personal story about the power of listening to our queer elders
“Original 1993 one sheet for Derek Jarman’s ‘Blue,’ today and tomorrow at @AnthologyFilm”
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With their snippets of poetry, drawings, film storyboards, thoughts, plans and photographs, Derek Jarman's sketchbooks offer a rare insight into an artist's mind at work
If you wanted to seem sophisticated in the 1980s, you went to see a Derek Jarman film – and his 1986 biopic of the baroque painter Caravaggio was a landmark in his recognition as a major director.
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AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF A LEGENDARY FILMMAKER: THE “DEREK JARMAN’S SKETCHBOOKS” It will be released on 9th September 2013 “Derek Jarman’s sketchbooks”( Thames & Hudson, £28.00), book edited by …
An avant-garde artist is survived by his seaside garden.
Twenty years after his death, we consider the many shades of Derek Jarman through his art, films and sketchbooks
A few weeks ago I visited Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage in Dungeness. Jarman trained at the Slade School of Fine Art and went on to be a pioneering film-maker, stage designer, sculptor, painter, poet and costume and performance artist. His garden and home have been described as ‘ a living, breathing work of art’ by […]
