Of the dozen or so portraits of Derek Jarman in the NPG collection, this is perhaps my favourite. Rather than a posed black and white photograph or a more formal form of portraiture, this captures a fluid queerness that’s refreshing to see on the walls of the gallery. I listed this artwork in my essay ‘Does this portrait look queer to you?’ which won the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ annual writing competition and for which I collected my prize this week. For reasons of space in the essay, I didn’t get to dwell on this photograph, but returning to it now it really does speak as a queer artwork.

The portrait was taken by Hamilton shortly before Jarman's death when they met at Tate to celebrate the Gallery's recent acquisition of Jarman's Ataxia - Aids is Fun, the painting in the background. Hamilton later used computer manipulation to blur the image to approximate Jarman's view of the world, affected by a severe eye disorder connected with the later stages of AIDS.