We’re thrilled to share details of Beyond the Mainstream: Exploring Outsider Art, a series of talks to unearth unchartered creativity and the worlds of outsider artists, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. There are three events…
Wirral-based artist Alison Bailey Smith will be at MAKE Hamilton this week running FREE fun and creative up-cycling workshops inspired by Ron Gittins. Ron used a technique called appliqué to add pieces of fabric to…
Ron’s Place patron and filmmaker Martin Wallace describes his first encounter with Ron Gittins’ larger than life-size mural of Cleopatra “oozing Liz Taylor energy” in a piece for the latest edition of Raw Vision.The magazine,…
We’re pleased to announce the appointment of Teresa Erskine to the board of the Wirral Arts and Culture Community Land Trust, which owns Ron’s Place. Teresa is an award-winning chartered architect and head of studio…
WACCLT will be holding its Annual General Meeting at 6pm on Wednesday, November 13 at Egerton House, Birkenhead. This is an annual gathering to share with members the work completed in 2024, as well as…
Teresa is an award-winning Chartered Architect and Head of Studio at vPPR Architects’ Liverpool studio. With extensive experience across cultural, community, arts, and heritage projects – including work on listed buildings and historic sites -Teresa…
We are pleased to announce that we have engaged Kate Dickson, director of Creative Heritage Consultants, as Heritage Project Organiser on the restoration of Ron’s Place. A trained architect with 25 years in the sector,…
Central to the work of Wirral Arts and Culture Community Land Trust is the desire to developaffordable community-led housing for artists based and living in the Wirral. The house in Silverdale Road, where Ron’s Place…
In great news, we have secured funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund to begin to shareand preserve Ron Gittins’ heritage. Over the next year, we will recruit and train sixvolunteers to digitise a selection of…