Lizzy Vartanian Collier aka Gallery Girl is a writer and curator based in London. Her work has been featured in publications including Dazed, Hyperallergic and Vogue Arabia. She was curator of Perpetual Movement during AWAN Festival 2018 and in 2019 had a residency at the Lab at Darat Al Funun in Amman, Jordan. She has also worked with Armenia Art Fair for its inaugural edition and previously worked as an editor at I.B.Tauris Publishers. In 2019 she co-founded Arsheef, Yemen’s first contemporary art gallery. She has given workshops at Manara Culture in Amman, Jordan and Victoria and Albert Museum in London, UK.
As of 2020 she is currently in law school, with the ambition of greater understanding the intersection between art and the law.
Several futuristic super-villains are lurking on the wooden walls of Carl Kostyal’s Savile Rowe gallery. These paintings are part of a new series – which mix humour with excess – by Oli Epp, currently on display in London.
Specifically looking at the idea of absences within cities and cultures, Leave Of Absence stages exhibitions where each member nominates artists to make work for the space. Gallery Girl spoke to LOA’s Yu’an Huang about the project.
Having originally trained in fashion, Dutch artist Jade van der Mark makes paintings about humanity. Gallery Girl spoke to Jade about the people in these paintings and her hopes for the future.
In a new investigation of self-portraiture at Omer Tiroche in London, a mix of paintings and photographs explore a psycho-analytical theory of personality.