27/08/2026
We warmly invite you to the opening of
A Leg and a Wing to Save the King
a solo exhibition by Daniel van der Noon
‘Exploring themes from his childhood, Daniel invites us to a world of memories and nostalgia in his paintings and texts.
‘’A Leg and a Wing to Save the King’
a one,
a two,
and a jolly good three.
Phrases from childhood remain with strange certainty even when their origins have disappeared. I remember the rhythm of the song and being swung into the air, each hand held by one of my parents: a LEG and a WING…
As a child you imagine that you will somehow grow up inside the same world. The houses, décor, ornaments, shops, cars, gardens, voices and Sunday afternoons seem as though they will remain where you left them. Everything seems as permanent as the chest of drawers in your bedroom, or the towel printed with a cream-coloured fluffy dog piloting an aeroplane of the Wright brothers’.
This series of paintings, developed from drawings, begins with such fragments - an attempt to return to such passages of childhood in Birmingham: songs, rhymes, names, pets, football kits, plants and scraps of conversation that can return intact in one moment and become distorted in another. ‘
Daniel van der Noon
We look forward to seeing you!
Thursday, September 3rd, 17 -20
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