Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman's House

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Thirty years after Derek Jarman's death, we are finally allowed inside a house that encapsulates the filmmaker's vision of the world

Over a near-decade from 1986, the artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman and his partner Keith Collins created a home and sanctuary at Prospect Cottage. After Jarman’s death in 1994, Collins hung net curtains to shield the home they had shared from the eyes of visitors to Prospect’s world-famous garden.

In 2018, the photographer Gilbert McCarragher, a friend and neighbour in Dungeness, was asked to record the house, a vital artwork in its own right. It was the first time this private world had been so extensively chronicled. Unfolding room by room, McCarragher’s photographs are accompanied by reflective essays that take the reader inside Prospect Cottage, revealing something of its history and his experience of photographing there.

Extent: 192 pp
Format: PLC (no jacket)
Illustrations: 161
Publication date: 2024-04-04
Size: 24.0 x 17.2 cm
ISBN: 9780500027233

Press Reviews

Its exterior is one of the most photographed in Britain ? but the inside of the artist and director?s home has seldom been seen, until now... a riveting portrait of the later years of an important British artist
Sunday Times

This new book, and McCarragher?s devotion to both the house and its subjects offer touching insight to Jarman as a person, beyond his significant cultural and political achievements. Art historian Frances Borzello?s moving foreword also illuminates Jarman?s deeply poetic nature, allowing us to understand, in some way, the gnawing void that those closest to him are destined to live with every day
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About the Authors

Gilbert McCarragher is an artist and photographer based in London and Dungeness His architectural photography is featured extensively in books and magazines including iEl Croquisi iDomusi and iJohn Pawson Plain Spacei 2010 As an artist he works in multiple photographic mediums and has exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts Victoria and Albert Museum Institute of Contemporary Art London Jerwood Space and the Wapping Projectbr

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