Please join us at the next History Club, where Jane Palm-Gold will discuss Derek Jarman: From Phoenix House to Prospect Cottage.

Join the Soho Society for an evening with Jane Palm-Gold, as she explores the life and work of Derek Jarman, from Phoenix House to Prospect Cottage.

In July 1979, Derek Jarman moved from his Butler’s Wharf warehouse on the Thames, to a tiny flat in Phoenix House on the Charing Cross Road. This talk explores his life and work there, his unknown ‘city garden’ and the series of life-changing events that led to his relocation to Prospect Cottage, Dungeness. JanePalm-Gold is an artist, curator and historian of St Giles.

Jane Palm-Gold lives in St Giles where she practices as an artist, curator and historian. In 2011, her landmark exhibition with Museum of London Archaeology, London’s Underworld Unearthed: The Secret Life of the Rookery, presented six years of research into the St Giles Rookery to much critical and public acclaim. After Regeneration City Blues (Leeds and London, 2015), she curated the Shaftesbury Plc commissioned Fear and Loathing at the Roxy (2017) which featured photography shot at the legendary Punk club, by Ray Stevenson, Derek Ridgers and Jeremy Gibbs.

In 2024, she presented her major exhibition Derek Jarman: From Soho to the Fifth Continent at Farsight Gallery, St Giles and Rye Arts Festival, Rye, East Sussex, accompanied by a series of sold-out talks. A painting from this show, The Dungenesser received international recognition after winning the Visual Artist Association’s ‘Artist of the Year’ Landscape category in 2025. Twice a graduate of the Royal College of Art, her solo exhibitions and work have featured on the Robert Elms Show BBC Radio London, BBC London News, MTV Networks, NHK TV Japan and in the Guardian, Independent, New Scientist, Current Archaeology and SKYArts Tate Walks – William Hogarth, with Danny Baker and Gus Casely-Hayford.

The talk will begin at 7:00pm and will last approximately one hour, followed by an optional drinks social afterwards.

Please note:

This event is free for paid members of the Soho Society only

Tickets for non-members are £10

Unfortuntely, due to limited space, we are unable to permit plus ones.

We hope to see you there!

The Soho Society History Club

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