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, which celebrates ‘outsider’ artists from around the world, dedicated three colour spreads to the Silverdale Road flat – and Martin’s…
We’re pleased to announce the appointment of Teresa Erskine to the WACCLT board. 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 – she has been the driving force behind…
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 new developments in the coming year. Plus board member Paul Kelly will lead a discussion on Where does Wirral fit in…
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, Kate will bring her expertise in the conservation and creative re-use of challenging historic buildings to develop a plan for…
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 is, will offer three flats to locally-basedartists who are looking for affordable housing. We will have two one-bedroom flats and…
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 Ron’s vast archive which includes source materials forhis art, sketches, paintings, sculptured objects, photographs and handwritten notes, some insecret code….
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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…
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.
