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.

Akram Zaatari @ Thomas Dane

January 28, 2014.Reading time 2 minutes.

I first learnt about Akram Zaatari at last years Venice Biennial. The lebanese artist’s video installation was one of my favourite pieces of the festival so I was excited when I heard of a London show this year. The show, which is split between two galleries in Mayfair focuses on archival images which seems fitting […]

Kate Moss @ Imitate Modern

January 24, 2014.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The world’s favourite supermodel has just turned 40. She is double my age yet she has me wishing that I looked like her. To celebrate Kate Moss’s birthday, Imitate Modern is hosting a show of 10 portraits of the model taken by Russell Marshall. Each portrait has been injected with neon colour to make Moss’s […]

Pop Art @ Barbican

January 20, 2014.Reading time 2 minutes.

The first art that I ever engaged with as a child was Pop Art. I loved the cartoon colours, the vibrant energy and the overall aesthetic of it. If it weren’t for Pop Art I may never have widened my horizons into other kinds of art at all. The current Pop Art Design exhibition at […]

Wael Shawky @ Serpentine

January 16, 2014.Reading time 3 minutes.

Egyptian artist Wael Shawky is enjoying his first major London show at the Serpentine Gallery. The gallery hosts drawings, puppets and political film Upon entering the gallery, the visitor is greeted by a procession of puppets standing statically and in a dimly lit room, all facing the same direction. The figures seemed to me, somewhat […]

Chapman Brothers @ Serpentine, Sackler Gallery

January 12, 2014.Reading time 2 minutes.

The aptly named ‘Come and See’ exhibition hosted by the Chapman Brothers at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery is astounding, and quite frankly, everyone needs to ‘come and see’ for themselves. The title of the exhibition comes from a film about the horror of the second world war, however, though the art may be gruesome and […]