2. Derek Jarman's Studio, Charing Cross Road, Soho

Derek Jarman (1942 - 1994) was an experimental film-maker and artist, as well as a radical force who was unafraid to rattle the establishment. Outspoken about homosexuality he fought publicly for gay rights, becoming a leading campaigner against Section 28, which sought to ban the "promotion" of homosexuality in schools. When Jarman moved to Charing Cross in 1979, Soho was becoming the notorious centre of the London LGBTQ+ community which, by the 1990s, was firmly established. Jarman took on a minuscule studio flat on the fourth floor of Phoenix House, just off the Charing Cross Road. Reached by a rough industrial lift, the apartment was packed with paintings, books, a fold up bed and a metal desk. It was a hotbed for his creative practice and home to a decade of climatic work. In December 1986, Jarman was diagnosed with HIV. He was the first UK public figure to come out as HIV positive and openly discuss his personal struggle with the illness, an incredibly brave thing to do in an era when people with HIV were demonised as a public health threat by the tabloids and rightwing MPs.

Print is 20 x 25cm, unframed, signed, numbered and comes with the above accompanying text.