(1942 - 1994)
Derek Jarman was born in Northwood, Middlesex, UK on 31 January 1942. He was educated at Hordle House in Hampshire and then Canford School, Dorset, before studying at King's College, London between 1960 and 1963, and at the Slade School of Art from 1963 to 1967.
Between 1969 and 1994 he produced a huge amount of work, the main items of which are listed below. When he learnt he was HIV positive he moved to Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, Kent, under the shadow of the nuclear power station. It was here that he wrote his autobiography and created his extraordinary garden, incorporating debris picked up from the beach. He died of AIDS in 1994.
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