BBC News • Entertainment & Arts • 29 September 2022
Video Journalist: Dan Curtis
Ron Gittins lived in Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula in England. A curious and colourful character, he was both well-known but also a total mystery to friends, neighbours and even family.
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…
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…
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…
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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,…
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…
