Prospect Cottage. Derek Jarman s House

Its exterior is one of the most photographed in Britain but the inside of the artist and director s home has seldom been seen until now a riveting portrait of the later years of an important British artist Sunday Times Over a near decade from 1986 the artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman and his partner Keith Collins created a home and sanctuary at Prospect Cottage After Jarman s death in 1994 Collins hung net curtains to shield the home they had shared from the eyes of visitors to Prospect s world famous garden.

In 2018 the photographer Gilbert McCarragher a friend and neighbour in Dungeness was asked to record the house a vital artwork in its own right It was the first time this private world had been so extensively chronicled Unfolding room by room McCarragher s photographs are accompanied by reflective essays that take the reader inside Prospect Cottage revealing something of its history and his experience of photographing there.