Derek Jarman Shortlisted:1986
Derek Jarman was an artist, teacher, film-maker, theatre-designer, poet and polemicist.
He had trained as a painter and continued to paint until his death in 1994, producing a series of vividly coloured and expressive canvases which dealt uncompromisingly with mortality
and the experience of being gay.
Jarman was shortlisted in 1986 for his achievements as a film-maker, in particular for his feature film about the Italian seventeenth-century painter Caravaggio which, unusually for
a low-budget, art-house film, successfully competed against Hollywood blockbusters for audiences.
