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Derek Jarman, Blue (1993), Copyright and Courtesy Basilisk Communications Ltd.
Exhibition
Derek Jarman: Blue (1993)
6 Jul 2024 – 7 Sep 2024
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- Grundy Art Gallery
- Queen Street
- Blackpool
- FY1 1PX
- United Kingdom
Chosen for his powerful multi-artform practice, the introduction of work by Derek Jarman into the exhibition Flamboyant Flamingos, creates a conversation across time.
About
Living through the AIDS crisis and contributing to the public politicisation of art in the 1980s and early 90s, Jarman has also been chosen for his extraordinary contribution to the history of art made by artists with queer lived experience.
Released four months prior to Jarman’s death from AIDS related complications, Blue (1993), is the artist’s final feature film. Set against a static blue background, the work takes the form of an audio-visual poem where spoken words, music and sounds combine to create an uncompromising and deeply moving meditation on the artist’s life, loves and impending death.
Blue is generously on loan from Basilisk Communications Ltd. Grundy’s presentation of the work represents the first time it has been exhibited in Lancashire.
