Derek Jarman Prospect Cottage Interior

Gilbert's book, Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman's House, is a glorious record of life within the walls of the cottage, and beyond. The surrounding garden has been open to visitors for years. "The garden that Jarman created is probably a smaller version of the overall Dungeness estate," Gilbert explains.

A short way along the road is Prospect Cottage, with its black tarred clapboarding and yellow-painted window frames. It is the cottage that film director Derek Jarman bought and came to live in about three years ago, and with which he has fallen totally in love. 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. While its garden is well-trodden, Prospect Cottage's interiors remained largely private after Derek Jarman, the filmaker, artist and gay activist, died in 1994 from an AIDS-related illness. He had bought the tar-clad, clapboard Victorian fisherman's hut in 1986, having spotted it when he stopped to buy fish and chips from the Pilot Inn after a day filming locally with the actress Tilda.

Prospect Cottage Prospect Cottage is the former home and sanctuary of artist, filmmaker, gay rights activist and gardener Derek Jarman (1942 - 1994). Following a successful campaign to save the cottage for the nation, you can now step inside the home and workspace of one of Britain's most iconic creative figures. While 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 Cottage explain my experience of being inside Prospect, revealing the care given to it by Derek's companion Keith Collins across 24 years following Derek's death, before Keith too sadly passed away. 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.

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. Prospect Cottage is a house on the coast in Dungeness, Kent. Originally a Victorian fisherman's hut, [1][2] the house was purchased by director and artist Derek Jarman in 1987, and was his home until his death in 1994.

Review by Steve Harp I was a bit apprehensive about writing a review of Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman's House. While I've only seen one of Jarman's films (Wittgenstein, 1993), I've become increasing interested in Jarman's output as an artist. Not only a feature film director (11 released between 1976 - 1993), Jarman was also.