4 June-7 August, Amanda Wilkinson, 1st Floor, 18 Brewer Street (entrance on Green\u2019s Court), W1F 0SH<\/strong><\/p>\nDerek Jarman is best known as the arthouse filmmaker of punk satire Jubilee<\/em> (1977), biopic Caravaggio<\/em> (1986) and memento mori Blue<\/em> (1993), made the year before his untimely death from Aids-related illness. But his painting practice is gaining recognition with recent exhibitions at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Garden Museum in London. Gallerist Amanda Wilkinson has worked with Jarman\u2019s estate since 2013. Her latest show of 24 paintings, titled after a chapter of his lyrical book on colour, Chroma<\/em>, includes a number of canvases that contrast glowing gold-leaf with black tar. Wilkinson describes them as \u201ca kind of archaeology\u201d of Jarman\u2019s life from 1982 to 1992, a period when he was diagnosed with HIV and became a vocal gay-rights activist, met his partner Keith Collins and created a renowned garden at Prospect Cottage in Dungeness. Some paintings are embedded with broken glass, beach flotsam and condoms, while others are inscribed with defiant messages of political protest against the Conservative Thatcher government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n