143. The Wizard of Dungeness

RUTH CLYDESDALE visits Prospect Cottage, the home of the late film-maker, writer and gardener Derek Jarman, and finds magic and mystery among the shingle…

Twice now, my partner and I have visited Derek Jarman’s Dungeness home, Prospect Cottage. The visits made powerful impressions on us both. The cottage, bought thanks to a successful crowdfunding campaign, has only been open to the public since 2023. Derek Jarman (1942-1994) was a modern Renaissance man. He is perhaps most famous as a director of experimental, art-house films and as a Turner Prize-nominated artist, but he was also a theatrical designer, a writer and an innovative gardener. He campaigned fearlessly for gay rights at a period when the UK Government was legislating to limit them and was boldly ‘out’ himself. Tragically, he contracted AIDS when doing so was a death sentence. Driving through Kent in the spring of 1986 in search of a film location, Jarman stopped off…

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