Derek Jarman: Queer
The paintings deal with love, sex and death and are a direct response to media coverage of the AIDS crisis in the UK.
Wednesday - Friday 12 noon - 6pm and Saturday 12 noon - 5pm
The paintings deal with love, sex and death and are a direct response to media coverage of the AIDS crisis in the UK.
Wednesday - Friday 12 noon - 6pm and Saturday 12 noon - 5pm
VideoVirus is a powerful new film by AA Bronson and General Idea. Reimagining their historic Imagevirus for a global audience
30 November 2021
This exhibition brings together paintings from 1982 – 1992, a rich and turbulent period in Jarman’s life.
Wednesday - Saturday, 12 noon – 6pm
The appeal to save artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage for the nation has successfully reached its £3.5-million target in just ten weeks, with a final total of £3,624,087.
1 April 2020
The Art Fund is trying to raise £3.5m by 31 March 2020 to purchase Prospect Cottage the much-loved beachside home and garden of the artist/film director Derek Jarman.
23 January 2020
The paintings in this exhibition were made during 1989-1990, a moment when Derek Jarman was in the midst of creating his garden around Prospect Cottage in Dungeness.
Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm
An immersive exhibition of artwork by the filmmaker Derek Jarman titled Pandemonium will be presented by the Cultural Institute at… Read More
11 December 2013
To mark the 20th anniversary of Derek Jarman’s death from HIV-related illnesses in February 1994, King’s Cultural Institute presents Derek… Read More
17 September 2013
The shortlist for the annual Jarman Award, now in its ninth year, has been announced. The six outstanding artists nominated for… Read More
18 June 2016
The six artists shortlisted for the prestigious Film London Jarman Award 2015, with a chance to win £10,000 prize money… Read More
21 July 2015
The 2014 shortlist for the prestigious Jarman Awards has been announced in London. This is the only award of its… Read More
10 July 2014
Film London in association with the Whitechapel Gallery have announced the 2013 line up of UK-based contemporary artists for the… Read More
21 July 2013
The 5th annual Jarman Award is a prize inspired by one of Britain’s most innovative, esteemed and controversial artists of… Read More
30 October 2012
In the February 2024 Art Diary, the Revd Jonathan Evens looks at the Pre-Raphaelites, the works of Alison Lapper, Monia Sjöö and various group exhibitions, including shows at Cross Lane Projects, Drawing Room and The William Morris Gallery.
1 February 2024
The boundary-defying artistic practice of Li Yuan-chia, particularly through his LYC Museum and Art Gallery, turns aspects of modern art history on its head.
10 January 2024
The Turner Prize is among contemporary British art’s most prestigious and influential awards. It was established in 1984 to honour a British artist
27 September 2023
Figures from fashion, music and the art world will again pack Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre for the 50th Alternative Miss World Pageant.
25 October 2022
Just for the Record is a new exhibition by the 2022 Venice Biennale Golden Lion winner Sonia Boyce OBE RA’s…. Read More
11 October 2022
Bowman Sculpture and Canopy Collections are presenting a joint exhibition, ‘When Matter Becomes Form’, opening Friday, 6 May 2022
1 May 2022
Seventy-Five artists selected for New Contemporaries 2021 demonstrating the resilience of the creative process in a challenging year have been revealed by Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021.
8 July 2021
THEM is a new exhibition examining the work of an important group of artists who came to prominence in the… Read More
3 February 2020
Cecilia Alemani has been appointed as the Director of Visual Arts for the 2021 Venice Biennale. The Board of Directors of La Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, made the decision at a meeting yesterday.
11 January 2020
Bloomberg New Contemporaries which has recently opened their 2019 edition at Leeds Art Gallery is a must-see exhibition for those trying to keep their finger on the pulse of the emerging art emanating from the UK’s top art colleges.
19 September 2019
The Alternative Miss World Pageant which took place at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Saturday night was a triumph of artistic anarchy.
21 October 2018
Allan Kaprow Lives! Andrew Logan’s Alternative Miss World Competition returns to the Globe Theatre on Saturday 20 October, after a… Read More
12 October 2018
Judy Blame the artist, designer and style icon credited with changing the face of London culture in the 1980s and 90s has died age 58. Blame had a retrospective at the ICA covering both his work as an artist and stylist in 2016.
21 February 2018
Imagine in 1988 the public furore if the Tate had hosted an exhibition of queer British art – marking the 21st anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which decriminalised private homosexual acts between men over 21 in England and Wales.
17 April 2017
Death Mask’ by artist Tracey Emin, has been purchased by The National Portrait Gallery in London, it was announced today,
13 April 2017
Contemporary artist Marlene Dumas (b.1953) displays portraits of Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945), also known as ‘Bosie,’ painted last year and exhibited in Artangel’s ambitious exhibition at Reading Gaol, Wilde’s place of incarceration.
4 April 2017
Love it or loath it, the Turner Prize award always raises a critic’s scrutinising eyebrow. Some past prize winners are now household names, others have sunk into the hinterlands of obscurity. Here are some of the more outlandish past entrants.
23 December 2016
Paul Carey-Kent gives us his pick of the best London Art Exhibitions for September 2016 David Korty @ Sadie Coles, 1… Read More
12 September 2016
London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is celebrating the life and work of the influential accessories designer, art director and… Read More
25 May 2016