CDT SIS PGRs and academics started this year with a bit of artistic inspiration.
On the 21st January 2022 we visited the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton City centre to see the Derek Jarman exhibit “Modern Nature” John Hansard Gallery | What’s on | Derek Jarman’s Modern Nature (jhg.art)
Derek Jarman’s Modern Nature draws on Derek Jarman’s extraordinary legacy as a radical artist, filmmaker, writer, gardener, and activist.
The exhibition specifically focuses on his lifelong passion for plants, the human body, the landscape and the greater environment, as evidenced in the living artwork that is Prospect Cottage and its shingle garden in Dungeness, Kent. Created between 1987 and 1994, the house and garden continue Jarman’s legacy into the 21st century as a kind of barometer of the deep past and the near future.
This exhibit considers the relationship between people and the environment.
The PGRs enjoyed the experience of discussing the artwork together and considering themes that touch on their own research areas in a completely different media.
