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.

Maurizio Cattelan & Lucio Fontana @ Gagosian, Davies Street

February 28, 2014.Reading time 1 minute.

I am a huge fan of Maurizio Cattelan. His clever, witty, tongue-in-cheek works of art always grab my attention and his Toilet Paper Magazine is possibly my favourite magazine currently in print, so when I heard about his show with Lucio Fontana at Gagosian I just had to take a look. The exhibition puts one […]

Liu Wei @ White Cube, Mason’s Yard

February 20, 2014.Reading time 1 minute.

Contemporary Chinese art is very fashionable right now. Free of calligraphy and traditional motifs, 21st century Chinese art is political and has something to say. As does the work of Liu Wei, currently on display at White Cube. The show is made up of large sculptures which appear minimalistic at first. The upper level of […]

Wael Shawky @ Lisson

February 13, 2014.Reading time 2 minutes.

Camels. In the west they are associated with Egypt. We think of camels as magical creatures that can go days without drinking water, used as arabian horses. I automatically think of camels being used to trek through deserts with heavy loads on their humped backs. Wael Shawky however, shows the mysterious animals in a different […]

Andy Warhol @ Photographer’s Gallery

February 6, 2014.Reading time 1 minute.

When the name Andy Warhol is mentioned most people think of Campbell’s soup, bright images of Marilyn Monroe and Pop Art. A current exhibition of his photographs at the Photographer’s Gallery is a complete contrast. It is made up of black and white images are not made up of celebrity but the everyday. Whilst a […]

Isabella Blow @ Somerset House

February 2, 2014.Reading time 2 minutes.

The Isabella Blow exhibition at Somerset House has everybody talking. The show which chronicles the life of Blow who died in 2007 is embellished with fashion, film and mis-matched shoes! Somerset House introduces us to Blow with a newspaper announcement of the very first day of her life. She was born into the aristocracy, a […]