Join filmmaker Martin Wallace as he traces the origins of ‘Outsider Art’ and its precursor, ‘Art Brut’. Wallace will focus on how these ideas have taken shape around the world in the form of visionary environments.

In 1998, Wallace wrote and directed the Channel 4 series, Journeys Into The Outside with Jarvis Cocker, which explored outsider environments throughout France, the USA, and from Mexico to India. Using clips from Journeys, as well as material from his new film about Wirral-based outsider, the late Ron Gittins, Wallace will explore the complicated and contested label of ‘outsider’ art.

With plenty of opportunity for audience interactivity, Wallace will bring to life the commonalities and differences among the sites he has examined around the globe. In particular, he will focus on Ron’s Place, and the unique, creative and transformative opportunities sites like these provide.

About the host: Martin Wallace is an International Emmy and Royal Television Society award-winner, and BAFTA nominee. He is currently producing a feature-length documentary about the late Ron Gittins, a Wirral-based artist who spent 33 years converting his rented flat into a fantastical, immersive homage to his passion for the ancient and classical worlds.

About Outsider Film Season: Join us for a season of films inspired by our exhibition Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur, celebrating self-expression, unconventional creativity and the art that exists beyond the expected.

Take part at the museum: Join us at the museum for this special event, followed by an evening view of Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur until 20.45.