![]() Jarman’s seaside garden drifts into the no-man’s land of the surrounding landscape. A quarter of a century on, a blue plaque now commemorates what was once his studio on the Thames, and the Art Fund has purchased his black-tarred cottage, with its canary yellow windows, perched on the shingle of the Dungeness headland, for the nation. Since his death, he has become more than an artist of his time. In life, Jarman achieved a secular sainthood, canonised by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of gay male nuns. He had and would continue to lose many friends to Aids, and there is a thread of commemoration running through his later work. After his diagnosis as HIV-positive in 1986 Jarman made the decision to be open about his illness which, at that time, was invariably fatal. He died at 52 from an Aids-related illness, in 1994. Jarman’s enthusiasm and energy, his outspokenness and curiosity saw him through to the end. Photograph: Courtesy of Keith Collins Will Trust and Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London From the Watford Advertiser 1960, With My Self Portrait Painted 1959, by Derek Jarman.
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