We have some incredibly exciting news to announce: Ron’s Place has become the first Outsider Art environment to be listed in the UK. Over the past few days, we have been taking local and national media for tours of his extraordinary ground floor flat in preparation for today’s announcement. As followers of this website will…
Sanna (pictured on the right), a creative tour de force and a brilliant community connector, works tirelessly behind the scenes with great dedication and enthusiasm.
Patron Our esteemed Patron Jarvis Cocker needs no introduction! A long time fan of self-taught art and visionary art environments, Jarvis presented Journeys Into The Outside with Jarvis Cocker, produced and directed by Martin Wallace for Channel4. Jarvis was quite taken with Ron’s style of interior decoration (and his papier-mache ‘baby with a 6 pack’…
Laura Davis is an award-winning journalist and audience development specialist, who has been writing about Liverpool City Region’s arts and cultural scene for more than two decades, most notably as Arts Editor of both the Liverpool Daily Post and the Liverpool Echo. She was Senior Customer Editor for Reach Plc’s North West websites, including two of…
Our Ron’s Place benefactor Tamsin Wimhurst visits Ron’s Place for the first time Almost a year to the day since Wirral Arts and Culture Community Land Trust bought Ron’s Place at auction, Jan, Chris and Martin had the great pleasure of meeting Tamsin Wimhurst, the wonderful human being whose generosity and vision saved the day…
Historic England’s Advisory Committee visits Ron’s Place Martin Wallace, Wirral Arts and Culture Community Land Trust (WACCLT) trustee and advocate for Ron’s Place reports: ”Despite the unusually snowy conditions in Birkenhead, today (16th January) I had the pleasure of showing Ron’s Place to members of the Historic England Advisory Committee (HEAC). This was a continuation of our…
WACCLT is honoured to have been nominated for the Community Land Trust Network‘s ‘All About Community’ award presented on 25 November. We’d like to congratulate the deserving winners Hastings Commons – as a relatively new organisation ourselves we can learn a lot from their hugely inspiring story.
Wirral MakeFest’s Relax and Make Christmas Green 2 December 2023, 11 – 4 at the Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, Birkenhead Ron’s Place gets festive! The Ron’s Place team will be encouraging visitors to make collaged Christmas cards and gift tags using recycled materials, very much in the spirit of Ron. A selection of artefacts from Ron’s…
We’re glad to report that the building containing Ron’s ground floor flat is now covered in scaffolding so that essential repairs to the roof and walls can be undertaken. This comes as a huge relief as we head into winter. Things have felt frustratingly slow since the heady excitement (and exhaustion!) of campaigning and subsequent…
Kane Lyons is a documentary photographer based in New Brighton. Motivated by a love for social history, his photographs capture everyday life in the North West of England, emphasising the relationship people have with the environments they live in. Kane joined the Saving Ron’s Place team in November 2022, supporting our social media presence throughout the campaign to…