Outdoor art gallery will become home to outsider art

A structure earmarked for demolition by Thanet council is to be turned into an outdoor art gallery and museum by The Stretch charity, which delivers arts projects with prisoners, ex-prisoners, homeless people, mental health groups and young people in care. Last year the Save the Newgate Gap Shelter campaign in Margate succeeded with its expression of interest for the community asset transfer of the shelter, and plans are now progressing for it to become what is described as the first national museum for ‘outsider art’. The rebuilding will include an outsider arts trail, workshops and exhibitions.