This publication accompanies the 2008 Serpentine Gallery overview of the work of Derek Jarman, conceived and curated by the artist and film-maker Isaac Julien, who has worked with Jarman for many years. With texts by Julia Peyton-Jones, Tilda Swinton, Chrissie Iles, Hans Ulrich Obrist, this publication presents a refreshing vision of Derek Jarman as a true Renaissance man–a painter, director, activist, diarist and gardener–whose infectiously prolific range of enterprises belies a consistent preoccupation with liberated sexual politics and the defiance of inherited mores.