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.

Viennese Portraiture @ National Gallery

January 5, 2014.Reading time 3 minutes.

Austria is not often the first location that springs to mind when the words ‘modern art’ are strung together. However, it should be. To be even more precise, our attention should be focused on Vienna, which not only produced Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele but a dozen other brilliant artists, whose portraits are now on […]

Paul Smith @ Design Museum

December 16, 2013.Reading time 2 minutes.

Minimalism is certainly not what the Design Museum had in mind when deciding how to stage their current Paul Smith exhibition. The opening gallery is covered from floor to ceiling with images from the designers personal collections and it is difficult to know where to look. That said, it entices us in and gives a […]

Meadham Kirchoff @ V&A

December 8, 2013.Reading time 1 minute.

Some of the greatest British designers have been holding catwalk shows at the Victoria and Albert Museum over the past few years. Shows from Gareth Pugh to Erdem Moralioglu have gracefully been staged in the museum which is most famous for its art. These shows come under the title ‘Fashion in Motion’, and I was […]

Vivien Leigh @ National Portrait Gallery

December 5, 2013.Reading time 1 minute.

100 years ago an icon was born. Vivien Hartley, later to be known by her stage name Vivien Leigh became a darling across Hollywood screens and is now being celebrated in a beautiful collection of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery. Most famous for her role in Gone With the Wind, the exhibition includes photographs […]

Chinese Art @ V&A

November 20, 2013.Reading time 1 minute.

The Victoria and Albert are now showing one of the most lovely exhibitions that I have seen in a very long time. It is like a love letter from the west to the east, in admiration of centuries of sumptuous Chinese art. The work on display begins from 700 to 1900 allowing us westerners a […]