Martin Wallace
Martin began directing music videos for bands such as Pulp, Tindersticks, Aphex Twin and Biffy Clyro. As a director of factual television, he is an International Emmy and Royal Television Society North West award winner…
BBC Radio 4
Sketches: Stories of Art and People, Interior Life. Anna Freeman presents a showcase of stories about the meaning of art in people’s lives. This week, in stories of people using their homes as a canvas,…
Trebus Projects: THE KEEPERS PROJECT
Jan Williams and Chris Teasdale talk to David Clegg about the life and art of Jan’s uncle, Ron Gittins. Listen to the interview hereImage: Thierry Bal
Big Issue North: Outsider Art
“The definition of what makes an artist an outsider is riddled with contradiction and controversy but it comes down to a need to produce work for its own sake rather than for recognition”. By Steve Lee…
Jarvis Cocker joins the campaign to raise funds for Ron’s Place
Jarvis Cocker has lent his support to the campaign by donating a number of limited edition prints to the crowdfunder. As an advocate of outsider art Jarvis is massively behind this project and his support…
Outsider Environments Europe
Outsider Environments Europe is an inventory and documentary of art environments in Europe created by non-professionals. It is about people who without relevant professional training transform their house/garden into a relatively large-scale artwork. Embellishing a…
Liverpool Echo
From the outside, the only sign that Ron’s home is any different to the other double-fronted Victorian terraces in Oxton Village is the pile of rubbish in the front yard and the dirty white blinds covering the…