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This work was inspired by a journey around
Jarman’s garden at Prospect Cottage in Dungeness
and the surrounding area.‘Paradise haunts
gardens’, writes Jarman ‘and it haunts mine’.

Derek Jarman (1942-1994) was famous as a film-
maker, artist, stage designer, and writer. He is
also remembered for his shingle cottage-garden,
created in the latter years of his life, in the
shadow of the Dungeness power station. The house
was built in tarred timber. Raised wooden text on
the side of the cottage is the first stanza and the
last five lines of the last stanza of John Donne's
poem, ‘The Sun Rising’.

In my response to Jarman’s garden and the
surrounding area I have attempted to make work
with a ‘filmic’ quality that references Jarman’s
work and provides a narrative of my own journey.