PROSPECT COTTAGE NEEDS YOU NOW
Join the crowdfunding campaign to protect Derek Jarman’s legacy, and inspire creativity in generations to come.
Film critic Mark Kermode introduces the campaign to save Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage, and the vision for its future.
Leading artists including Tacita Dean, Jeremy Deller, Michael Craig-Martin and many more have created unique rewards to thank you for your donation.
We are crowdfunding to meet the £3.5 million needed to secure the future of Prospect Cottage as a centre of creative activity – for everyone. Every donation will make a difference.
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Hannah Perry, Rage Fluids, 2018, © Hannah Perry. Part of Reverb: Sound into Art at the Hayward Gallery, opening June 2020
12 December 2019
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19 December 2019
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9 December 2019
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22 January 2020
Today, Art Fund director Stephen Deuchar announced the launch of Art Fund’s £3.5 million public appeal to save and preserve Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, Kent, the home and garden of visionary filmmaker, artist and activist Derek Jarman.
18 December 2019
The work, which is of outstanding importance for the national heritage, has been saved for the nation thanks to a crowdfunding campaign and support from Art Fund.
5 December 2019
The search for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2020 begins today, with applications invited until the deadline of 13 February.
