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A Michael Craig-Martin 'special edition' print for £100 and helping a good cause, great, thanks.

A special-edition Michael Craig-Martin print, Prospect Cottage (2019, digital print on paper, A4), with artist's stamp, beautifully presented in a portfolio designed by the artist.

470 sold so far.

Artists launch Art Fund campaign to save Prospect Cottage, Derek Jarman’s home & garden, for the nation
– Art Fund launches £3.5 million public appeal to save famous filmmaker’s home
– National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund and Linbury Trust give major grants in support of innovative partnership with Tate and Creative Folkestone
– Leading artists Tilda Swinton, Tacita Dean, Jeremy Deller, Michael Craig-Martin, Isaac Julien, Howard Sooley, and Wolfgang Tillmans give everyone the chance to own art in return for donations through crowdfunding initiative
www.artfund.org/prospect

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, for the nation.


Art Fund needs to raise £3.5m by 31 March 2020 to purchase Prospect Cottage and to establish a permanently funded programme to conserve and maintain the building, its contents and its garden for the future. Major grants from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, the Linbury Trust, and private donations have already taken the campaign half way towards its target. Art Fund is now calling on the public to make donations of all sizes to raise the funds still needed.


Through an innovative partnership between Art Fund, Creative Folkestone and Tate, the success of this campaign will enable continued free public access to the cottage’s internationally celebrated garden, the launch of artist residencies, and guided public visits within the cottage itself. Creative Folkestone will become custodians of Prospect Cottage, oversee its long-term care and run these programmes. Jarman’s important archive from the cottage, including his sketchbooks and plans for the garden, will be entrusted to Tate and made available for public access at Tate Britain.


Without Art Fund’s appeal, Prospect Cottage is at risk of being sold privately, its contents dispersed, and artistic legacy lost.


Deuchar launched the campaign with the support of Tilda Swinton, Tacita Dean, Jeremy Deller, Michael Craig-Martin, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Creative Folkestone director Alastair Upton and Tate director Maria Balshaw.


Leading artists have come together to create limited edition works of art as rewards
for public donations on Art Fund’s crowdfunding site www.artfund.org/prospect. They include prints, objects and works of art by artists including Michael Craig-Martin, Tacita Dean, Jeremy Deller, Isaac Julien, Howard Sooley, and Wolfgang Tillmans, ranging from £25 to £1,250.


After Jarman purchased the cottage in 1986, it quickly became a source of inspiration and a creative hub where his parallel artistic practices and collaborators came together. Today it represents the most complete distillation of his pioneering creativity across film, art, writing and gardening: from his 1990 film The Garden starring Tilda Swinton, to his journal, Modern Nature, and from poetry etched in the glass, to driftwood sculptures and the remarkable garden he created on the shingle beach.


More than 25 years after his death, Prospect Cottage continues to be a site of pilgrimage for people from all over the world who come to be inspired by its stark beauty and by Jarman’s legacy. The cottage and its contents are now being sold following the death in 2018 of Keith Collins, Jarman’s close companion in his final years, to whom he bequeathed the cottage.


Stephen Deuchar, Art Fund director, said, ‘Prospect Cottage is a living, breathing work of art, filled with the creative impulse of Derek Jarman at every turn. It’s imperative we come together to save the Cottage, its contents and its extraordinary garden as a source of creative inspiration for everyone. My heartfelt thanks to the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Linbury Trust and my own trustees for leading the way in so supportively committing funds, and to the many artists who are helping us reach a wider public through our crowdfunding initiative. But so far we’re only halfway there, so I call on everyone to make a donation, large or small, to help us secure, preserve and maintain Prospect Cottage, forever.’

He was a visionary filmmaker, artist and activist.

There was an excellent Derek Jarman exhibition in the IMMA in Dublin until last weekend. I think some of the pieces are going to Scotland next. I attended a tour given by the curator, but really regret not being able to get back to see it properly.

I don’t know who he is... and I’m not joking

I’m old school i don’t get offended 😀

Typical! The south get a cottage and land! What did the north get? A half finished wall...

hattongallery.org.uk/collections/kurt-schwitters-merz-barn-wall

This is now 87% funded....getting there....and new rewards offered.....

Great to see they've surpassed the target. £3,606,606 raised with 5 hours left.

Does anyone know when the Michael Craig-Martin print is likely to ship?

This is probably the most disappointed I've been at missing out on a launch/release etc... Huge Michael Craig-Martin fan and I could both afford and liked the image. Unfortunately I only saw this thread this afternoon and had no idea about the fundraiser.

I don't live in UK and am a bit younger so its not like I really missed out on any Banksy releases or anything like some of you. We've all let things slip through our fingers but this one was so affordable and so readily available that it hurts haha.

Anyway congrats to all you who got one.

Thanks, I already tried and was informed that no further donations or print sales etc. outside of the timed fundraiser.

Woohoo! Hopefully rest will arrive in next few days.