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Delphinium Days, New Zealand’s first Derek Jarman exhibition, opens in Auckland

Joanna Wane
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Senior Feature Writer Lifestyle Premium·NZ Herald·
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Delphinium Days, New Zealand’s first Derek Jarman exhibition, opens in Auckland
Gus Fisher Gallery director Lisa Beauchamp with Derek Jarman's 1993 work Drop Dead, painted a year before he died from an Aids-related illness. Photo / Michael Craig

Joanna Wane looks at the enduring legacy of artist, activist and canonised ‘saint’ Derek Jarman

All sorts of patients ended up in the two HIV wards at London’s St Mary’s Hospital, where nurse Sally Rowe worked in the late 80s. A violinist from the philharmonic orchestra. A stockbroker. A dresser

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