Prospect Cottage Interior

Thirty years after his death, we at last have the chance to peek into Derek Jarman's instantly. A version of this article appeared in the November 1989 and June 2019 issues of The World of Interiors. Learn about our subscription offers To mark 30 years since Derek Jarman's death, Creative Folkestone invite audiences from across the world to watch a sunset from Dungeness and Prospect Cottage on the anniversary of Jarman's death.

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. 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 new book by the photographer Gilbert McCarragher will give readers a first-look inside Derek Jarman's famous home on the shingle of Dungeness. Prospect Cottage's gardens frequently attract visitors, but few have seen inside the artist's home.

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. 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. 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. 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 of which he wrote in his diary, in 1990: 'Prospect Cottage is the last of a long line of.