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 the royalties from his global best selling autobiography "EGO! Sui generis", 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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