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Derek Jarman

The latest news and comment on film director Derek Jarman

September 2020

  • Thelma Mathews’s makeup career included work for the Thompson Twins and Derek Jarman

    Other lives
    Thelma Mathews obituary

    Other lives: Makeup artist in music and film who had a second career as a psychotherapist for young people

August 2020

  • Derek Jarman’s garden in Dungeness, Kent.

    Don't add water: be inspired to plant a beautiful dry garden

    As temperatures rise, could gravel gardens, such as Derek Jarman’s pioneering creation in Dungeness, be the answer to long, dry spells?

July 2020

  • Shingle life ... how Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, Kent, has been recreated in a museum.

    Blooms with a view: Derek Jarman's magical garden gets a transplant

    Surrounded by poppies, sea kale and a nuclear power station, the late director’s otherworldly cottage and garden has been saved for the nation. And now there’s good news for anyone who can’t wait to see inside
  • Toyah Willcox, early 80s.

    From the Guardian archive
    Toyah Willcox, the thinking man's punkette – archive, 1980

    3 July 1980: “No one can rip me off. I’m too much of a bitch,” the self-confessed megalomaniac tells Robin Denselow
  • Clockwise from to left, work by Larissa Sansour, Michelle Williams Gamaker, Jenn Nkiru, and Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings.

    Jarman prize shortlist 2020 celebrates vibrant escapism

    Afro-surrealism, Hollywood racial imbalances and LGBTQ history are explored by nominees for the £10,000 film-making prize

March 2020

  • Derek Jarman’s home and garden at Dungeness in Kent

    £3.5m crowdfunding campaign saves Derek Jarman’s Kent home

    Campaign secures future of Prospect Cottage, a place of pilgrimage for devotees of artist
  • Olivia Laing sitting in her garden

    Lockdown living
    Earthly delights: gardening in a time of crisis

    Gardens have been a lifelong comfort for Olivia Laing. In these uncertain times, she welcomes their green embrace more than ever

    • Feeling overwhelmed? How art can help in an emergency by Olivia Laing

    • ‘It’s not just a cottage, it’s a shrine.’ Writers join bid to save Derek Jarman’s last home

    • 'It made the Oscars fun': signature-laden suit goes on show before auction

February 2020

  • Prospect Cottage, the house and garden in Dungeness, Kent, that belonged to film producer Derek Jarman.

    Alys Fowler's gardening column
    Why Derek Jarman’s garden must be saved

    The film-maker’s Prospect Cottage and inspirational garden on the Kent shingle should be preserved for future generations
  • Derek Jarman in 2005.

    'Dear God, please send me to hell': Derek Jarman prints sold in fundraiser

    Prints of letter, being made public for first time, offered for sale to save late artist’s Dungeness cottage

    • Derek Jarman and friends in Dungeness – unseen pictures

    • Sandy Powell's Bafta suit raises funds to save Derek Jarman's cottage

    • 'They weren't just ponces!' How Them glammed up boring Britain

January 2020

  • A gust of wind blows the hair of a woman in her face

    Brief letters
    The day I was told I needed a good shag

  • Luke Turner

    Derek Jarman’s house provides a rare space for queer history. We must save it

    Luke Turner
  • Prospect cottage and garden

    'A toolbox for his work': fundraiser launched to save Derek Jarman's home

  • Tilda Swinton We Need to Talk About Kevin

    Ranked
    All Tilda Swinton's films – ranked!

November 2019

  • The Jump, 2015, Film Still, Hetain Patel

    How artist Hetain Patel went from Spider-Man fan to Spandex-clad star

    Growing up Asian in Bolton, Patel ‘wanted to be white’. Now the superhero fantasies into which he escaped racism have won him a major art prize
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