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Upping the scale, he also made two series of seething, bitter, large-scale abstractions, the paint spattered and smeared across their clotted, coagulated surfaces. With their broken glass and their morbid black surfaces, their confected agglomerations of spent bullets and seeds, unrolled condoms decaying under glass, a scatter of pills mired in paint, nasty, black tarry canvasses with medical bags and tubes, toy skeletons, rosary beads and crosses, and a grim, symmetrical arrangement of pharmaceutical bottles and packages called One Day’s Medications, these all become reliquaries of a life lived. His Super 8 shorts often capture the same fleeting world, of people and moments and light. Sowers and Reapers, 1987, in Derek Jarman: Protest! Photograph: Amanda Wilkinson Gallery Always alert to the things around him, the world adheres to them, they rail against darkness. His later, small agglutinative paintings and assemblages have a similar brevity to his journal entries, with their daily reflections on weather, local incidents, politics, things found and seen and discovered on the foreshore. His writing is wonderful, and I keep returning to Modern Nature, his day-by-day journal of 19. Words, sometimes scrawled in thick paint, sometimes rendered in his distinctive, highly tuned calligraphy, were as important for Jarman as the mise-en-scène, the spectacle and the tableau. He could find it anywhere, especially perhaps in the profane, the transient, in the vitality of a dancing body or in the tenacity of plant life growing in the unlikely and hostile conditions of the shingle he tended. An atheist, Jarman had an almost gnostic sense of the spiritual. Photograph: Arts Council Collection, Southbank CentreĮverywhere, there were miracles – human, botanical, literary, meteorological – and matters of geology, theology or poetry or sex. Open about illness … Jarman’s Morphine, from 1992.
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There’s too much to take in, so many different ways you have to look. The variety of his approaches, and the shuttle between introspection and outrage, and the radical shifts in his tempo and method over the 40 or so years of his career don’t make life easy either for his curators or viewers.
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He did so much, in so many different ways, always going his own way. A season of Jarman’s feature films and shorts at Manchester’s Home opens at the end of January, and another, smaller exhibition is now at the John Hansard Gallery in Southampton.Įxhibitions that attempt an overview of Jarman’s life and work face the difficulty of his creativity. Neither did its maker.Ĭurrently, there is a show of Jarman’s work in Paris, for the city’s Festival d’Automne, and a large overview exhibition has just opened at Manchester Art Gallery, travelling from the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. 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.
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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.