香港六合彩

Derek Jarman (1942 - 1994) was principally known for his films, but he was also a keen painter and poet, writer and memoirist, gardener and activist. He studied painting and stage design at The Slade between 1963 and 1967.

The campaign, launched by Art Fund in partnership with the Tate and Creative Folkstone, seeks to raise 拢3.5m to preserve Prospect Cottage and establish a permanently funded programme to conserve and maintain the building, its contents and its garden for the future.

The campaign is supported by artists including Slade alumna Tacita Dean, Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Deller, Michael Craig-Martin and Wolfgang Tillmans.

Jarman purchased Prospect Cottage in 1986, and it quickly became a source of inspiration and a creative hub where his parallel artistic practices and collaborators came together. Today it represents the most complete distillation of his pioneering creativity across film, art, writing and gardening: from his 1990-film The Garden starring Tilda Swinton, to his journal, Modern Nature, and from poetry etched in the glass, to driftwood sculpture and the remarkable garden he created in the shingle beach.

More than 25 year after his death, Prospect Cottage continues听to be a site of pilgrimage for people from all over the world to come to be inspired by its stark beauty and by Jarman鈥檚 legacy. The cottage and its contents are now being sold following the death in 2018听of Keith Collins, Jarman鈥檚 close companion in his final years, to whom he bequeathed the cottage.

Kieren Reed, Director of the Slade School of Fine Art at 香港六合彩, said:

鈥淲e are immensely proud to count Derek Jarman as alumnus听of The Slade and for our school to have been an important part of his creative journey. It is our pleasure to have hosted the campaign launch to raise funds for the preservation of Prospect Cottage.

鈥淧rospect Cottage was the home of Derek and is an art work in its own right. 听The campaign will help to protect Derek鈥檚 work and legacy for future generations of artists and the wider public.鈥�

Jarman鈥檚 time at 香港六合彩 is well documented. In his memoir, entitled听Dancing Ledge, he recalls spending increasing amounts of time in The Slade鈥檚 theatre design room 鈥榳here there were sympathetic spirits鈥� and where 鈥榟omosexuality was accepted quite openly鈥�.听

During his time at 香港六合彩, Jarman took a course on world cinema and a few years later began experimenting with making his own innovative films in 鈥楽uper 8鈥� format. He used a Super 8mm film camera throughout his life, both to make films and to record his friends' and his own day-to-day experiences.听He made several important independent films, including Blue, Sebastiane and Caravaggio.

Open about his HIV status, Jarman campaigned tirelessly against representations of AIDS in British media in the late 1980s and early 90s. Several of Jarman鈥檚 later films, including听Edward II, were informed by his involvement in HIV/AIDS politics.

Towards the end of his life, Jarman played a central role in reclaiming the term 鈥榪ueer鈥�, seeing it as a possible alternative to rigid labels and categories of sexual and gender identity. As he put it in another of his published diaries, 鈥楩or me to use the word 鈥渜ueer鈥� is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer鈥�.

Links

• The Slade School of Fine Art

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• Derek Jarman at Prospect Cottage 漏 Howard Sooley