The DOMINIC LAGAN Gallery @ BrendanWorld™

Curated modern works and exhibitions for scholars and connoisseurs.

About
The Gallery was opened in 2025 by the anarchist installation artist and Orwellian plongeur, Hippolyte, ci-devant Marquis de Saint-Loup (1940-2036)*. It was named after the botuliste philosopher and revolutionary tromboniste Dominic Lagan, author of 'Martha and the Medium Sized Man' https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/1721575-martha-and-the-medium-sized-man
and formerly The Aleister Crowley Regius Professor of Virtue at the Vatican University.
Lagan was born in 1952 on Callisto, one of the Galilean moons of Jupiter, during a secret CIA mission to parley with the Andromedean embassy. His mother was Araminta Tollemache-Featherstonehaugh-Tollemache-Psmith, the society astronaut. His father was L.A.G.A.N. an IBM 600 series beta-robot, since de-activated (which meant that Lagan was the first person able to buy his own father on eBay).
Lagan was educated privately by tutors, including the footballer Bertrand Russell and the philosopher Jimmy Greaves.
After winning the Nobel prize for Literature at the relatively early age of 11 (for his brilliantly ironic post-modern essay: ‘What I dun on me holidays’) and teaching Delia Smith how to cook: he turned down the Vice Chancellorship at the newly opened Warwick University and the captaincy of Tottenham Hotspur, in order to train for the Tokyo Olympics. After donating his hoard of 13 Gold Medals and his book royalties to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Lagan retired to a zinc-lined cave in the desert outside Fez, with his lifelong companion, a hermaphrodite Berber.
* the date provided by his personal astrologer.
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2026: 
'Pop goes the Salon'
The Dominic Lagan Gallery @ BrendanWorld™ is a non-profit private gallery housed in an eighteenth century farmhouse which presents curated works by established artists. 
The main 'Salon Gallery' mounts a themed invitation-only exhibition each summer. Small permanent exhibits can also be viewed in the 'West Wing' annex.
In 2025 the gallery presented the   '3.5 Frinks in a salon'  exhibition; with works from Dame Elisabeth Frink CH DBE RA
In 2026 the summer exhibition ' Pop goes the salon' features works, photos, objects and books by or about Sir Peter Blake; RB Kitaj; David Hockney; Derek Boshier; Pauline Boty; Joe Tilson; Michael Cooper; and Allen Jones. Also included is the only known copy of the Beatles'   Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band signed by both the artist and the photographer who created the album cover; plus a special after-Warhol limited edition T-shirt. 
Free merch will be made available to VVVIPs.
The exhibition was inspired both by the ground breaking 1961 'Young Contemporaries' exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, where British Pop Art first emerged; and Ken Russell's famous 'Pop goes the weasel' 1962 BBC 'Monitor' documentary.
The exhibition will be open by appointment to invited guests only, between 1500 and 1600 each Friday in July and August.
BrendanWorld™ itself was constructed in 1987, and houses an important collection of art, books, photographs and artifacts, including those concerning the life, times and work of Brendan Bruce, (Chief Curator of the Dominic Lagan gallery) known as 'The Seventh Child', and his father, the legendary WWII hero Flight Lieutenant Dominic Bruce OBE MC AFM MA (Oxon) KSG RAF, the 'Medium Sized Man' of Colditz Castle fame.  
For more details about The Seventh Child see https://www.amazon.fr/-/en/stores/author/B001KE8Z2A/about



Who is welcome?

Everybody! Except* obvs Gooners, people in tracksuits, those with a subscription to the NYT, the FT, and/or Caravanners Monthly, plus Guardian readers, influencers, anyone from Gen X, Millennial, Gen Z or Gen Alpha, online scolds and language police, those with social media accounts ending in the word Tok, slogan‑only politicians, corporate DEI careerists, those who use the term LGBTQIA+, followers of Gramsci, Nigel Farage and/or Jean-Luc Mélenchon, those with mullets, man buns, tattoos or wearing Birkenstocks, gangsta rappers, the late  Michel Foucault, and the terminally woke, which for the avoidance of doubt is defined as  "a Neo-McCarthyite, anti-free speech, post Marxist bourgeois ideology of intolerance to any diversity of opinion, based on the radical Left/Maoist Dutschke concept of the ‘long march through the institutions’, whose groupthink beliefs include identity politics, critical race theory, white privilege and other forms of performative anti-white racism (including that practised by whites as a proactive self-defense mechanism and/or virtue signalling e.g. taking a knee), slavery reparations, affirmative action based on race not class, the splitting of students into racially segregated affinity groups; identity synthesis (which claims that categories like race, gender and sexual orientation are the primary prism through which to understand everything about our society, from major historical events to trivial personal interactions); the idea that trans women are actually women, the censorship of new books by sensitivity readers, compulsory or crypto compulsory DEI "loyalty oaths", compulsory ‘unconscious bias’ training courses and other forms of compelled performative dishonesty; the removal and/or destruction of historical monuments and artifacts deemed unacceptable to the groupthink; the compelled performative use of ethnic minorities in advertising; the scapegoating for perceived and self defined micro aggressions (whether or not there was any conscious intent to offend); the forced and mandatory use of pronouns and other forms of speech policing and compelled speech; the belief that freedom of speech does not entitle the speaker to offend (defined as the self perceived taking of offense); and the ad hominem suppression of dissent by the neo-Fascist bullying techniques of: cancellation, offense archaeology, doxxing, debanking, sanctioning, no-platforming, boycotting by woke individuals and captured state institutions of anybody who disagrees with some or all of these ideas." 
*with gratitude to the genius of Sir William Schwenk Gilbert

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