Derek Jarman’s beloved home ... maintain his privacy from the Jarman devotees who flocked to see the garden. Jarman had reveled in the isolation of his seaside home in Dungeness, with its ...

MODERN NATURE, The Prospect Cottage Diaries, directed by James Dacre, will be performed live in the Barbican Hall. A unique ...

Wind whistles between misshapen pieces of driftwood and curious geometric shapes in rusted iron, stood upright in the garden ... following the death of Jarman’s partner, Prospect Cottage ...

A new book, Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman’s House, by Gilbert McCarragher ... a long line of “escape houses” I started building as a child at the end of the garden: grass houses of fragrant mowings ...

Simon also visits Derek Jarman’s extraordinary garden in Dungeness, created as he was dying from Aids, which touches on a universal need to connect with nature as a consolation for mortality.