Author: Lizzy Vartanian Collier

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.

Vogue Festival @ Queen Elizabeth Hall

April 1, 2014.Reading time 5 minutes.

Last weekend much of the South Bank Centre was taken over by Vogue. The space was prepped for talks by designers, hair and make-up stylists and a Harrods catwalk. I was there on the Sunday to attend a talk and take a look around. Among the speakers at this years festival were Naomi Campbell, Alexa […]

David Bailey @ National Portrait Gallery

March 24, 2014.Reading time 4 minutes.

It seems fitting that the face of Kate Moss covers all the advertising for David Bailey’s career spanning exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. After all, Moss is probably the first model that springs to mind when we think of someone in the fashion industry who is British, timeless and has had the staying power […]

#bigswingingovaries @ Whitcomb Street

March 15, 2014.Reading time 2 minutes.

Last night, on my way to dinner at eat Tokyo I walked past a building which had #bigswiningovaries written across the windows. My initial thoughts were ‘what an unusual name for a fertility clinic’, and immediately went to eat my meal. After finishing my veggie curry, I walked past again and saw a tapestry of […]

Sunflowers @ National Gallery

March 13, 2014.Reading time 3 minutes.

The last time I saw people queueing at the National Gallery was for the Da Vinci exhibition. I tried multiple times to visit the Sunflowers exhibition without having to wait in line but was unsuccessful and eventually took my place at the end of the line like everyone else, but I am glad that I […]

Richard Hamilton @ ICA and Alan Cristea

March 7, 2014.Reading time 3 minutes.

Richard Hamilton is the first artist that tends to come to mind when they think about British Pop. Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? His collage from 1957 is probably just as well known as Warhol’s prints and Lichtenstein’s graphic comic like images from 1960s New York. Now, his […]