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Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman [2] (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) was an English artist, film maker, costume designer, stage designer, writer, poet, gardener, and gay rights activist. Biography
- Childhood
- Early Training and Work
- Mature Period
- Late Period
- The Legacy of Derek Jarman
Derek Jarman was born in Northwood, England three years prior to the end of World War II. His father served in the UK's Royal Air Force, an occupation that called for various domestic and international postings. For the last year of the war, Jarman's father was stationed in Italy, where the young artist and his mother eventually joined him in 1946....
After his high school years at Canford, Jarman attended King's College in London, where he studied history, continued painting voraciously, and began to exhibit his work in galleries. After three years at King's and several failed attempts at admission, he began attending Slade School of Fine Art. During his years in art school, Jarman's artistic i...
The early 1980s saw Jarman return to painting after having focused primarily on film in the previous decade. His paintings of this era incorporated imagery from nineteenth-century male nude photography, religious iconography, art historical ephemera, and sexual scenes. He displayed his paintings in a solo exhibition in 1982, which he titled After t...
Having grown into a mature artist in London, the clampdown on the sexual liberation of the 1960s and 1970s by the rise of conservatism felt like a personal affront to Jarman. "It is probably no exaggeration," writes Maccabe, "to say that in the early 1980s he became the most articulate and persistent defender of gay rights as the hard-won liberties...
Although his films are considered highly avant-garde and appeal mostly to niche audiences, Jarman made a lasting impression on the cinema and art worlds, particularly in Britain. His fascination with history, writes Maccabe, distinguishes him from other avant-garde filmmakers of the 20thcentury. Through the use of history as a lens to interpret the...
- British
- January 31, 1942
- Norwood, England
- February 19, 1994
Jan 30, 2022 · Jarman was a painter, writer and film-maker but what are the essential elements of his oeuvre? In 1992 Manchester Art Gallery (MAG) commissioned a piece by the artist Derek Jarman.
Sep 14, 2023 · Derek Jarman was diagnosed HIV-positive in December 1986, shortly before the launch of the UK government’s infamous “Don’t Die of Ignorance” campaign with its crashing tombstones and ominous John Hurt voiceover.
Dec 6, 2021 · Jarman was a teenager in the 1950s, one of the most oppressive decades for gay men in Britain, with pervasive homophobia, arrests, and a climate of fear and intimidation.
On September 22, 1991, Derek Jarman was “canonized” in the garden of his house at Dungeness, on a bare shingle beach overlooked by a nuclear power station at the southeasternmost corner of Britain.
Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) was an English artist, film maker, costume designer, stage designer, writer, poet, gardener, and gay rights activist.
