A fine PROSPECT

Step inside Prospect Cottage, the former home and sanctuary of artist, filmmaker and activist Derek Jarman, for a personal insight with photographer Gilbert McCarragher

Gilbert McCarragher

Following Derek Jarman's death in 1994, Prospect Cottage passed to his companion Keith Collins, who changed little at the house: introducing curtains to prevent visitors to the garden from peering in. When Collins died suddenly in 2018, Gilbert McCarragher, a friend and neighbour in Dungeness, was asked to record Jarman's former home. This was the first time a photographer had so extensively documented the cottage, an artwork in its own right. Organised room by room, McCarragher's 160 photographs are accompanied by reflective essays in the book Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman's House, taking the reader inside the cottage for the first time. Arriving at Prospect, I inserted and turned its various keys while running through the requisite sequence of pushing, pulling and kicking at the door in order to gain access.…

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Reclaim (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 90 - May 2024

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