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W hile its garden is well-trodden, Prospect Cottage’s interiors remained largely private after famed film director Derek Jarman died in 1994. The photographs and essays in my book on Prospect ...
The garden that the writer, artist and film-maker Derek Jarman conjured up on a blasted plain of littoral shingle near Dungeness power station in Kent is, I would guess, fairly well known. Indeed ...
Derek Jarman’s beloved home, Prospect Cottage, was nearly lost to the nation. The iconoclastic queer filmmaker, artist and activist, who died of an Aids-related illness in 1994 aged just 52 ...
A new book, Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman’s House, by Gilbert McCarragher, a Dungeness local, friend and photographer, invites us to experience the world as Jarman saw it from within the house, and ...
The Gardener’s Garden: ... Prospect Cottage in Kent, UK, and Fairsted (Frederick Law Olmstead’s home and office) in Brookline, each garden is distinctive and well worth learning about.
While its garden is well-trodden, Prospect Cottage’s interiors remained largely private after Derek Jarman, the artist and gay activist, died aged 52 in 1994 from an Aids-related illness. The ...
Derek Jarman’s beloved home, Prospect Cottage, was nearly lost to the nation. The iconoclastic queer filmmaker, artist and activist, who died of an Aids-related illness in 1994 aged just 52, ...
The garden room. Picture: Gilbert McGarragher. Keith Collins would inherit the house and continued to maintain it, both inside and out, until his own untimely death at the age of just 54.
The garden at Prospect Cottage is much-visited, but few have seen inside. A new book offers a rare glimpse inside filmmaker and artist Derek Jarman's former Dungeness home. Jarman, who also ...
From Dalí's surreal home to Derek Jarman's seaside cottage and Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul, these homes and gardens are shrines to their extraordinary owners.