Prospect Cottage in May 2007 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. [3].
Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman's love letter to Keith Inside, art and love fill every room. "I think Prospect was a love letter. Littered around the house are notes to Keith - well, to HB [Hinney Beast], which was Jarman's affectionate nickname for him," smiles Gilbert.
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. 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. 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.
The interiors share the otherworldly atmosphere of Dungeness - where Grand Designs meets a desert landscape dotted with abandoned boats, presided over by the brutalist power station. There are reminders of Jarman's shingle garden, which influenced celebrated professional horticulturalists such as Beth Chatto and Christopher Lloyd. 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. 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 Derek Jarman, the artist and gay activist, died aged 52 in 1994 from an Aids. The cottage is located in Dungeness, on the southern tip of Kent, England. We were familiar with Jarman's famous garden (see Garden Visit: Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage at Dungeness), but not the interiors, which were never formally photographed.