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.

Surrealist Afternoon Tea @ Sotheby’s

February 2, 2013.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Until Tuesday only, the date set for the upcoming Surrealist Art Sale at Sotheby’s, the London auction house is hosting a ‘surrealist afternoon tea’ which I was lucky enough to attend this afternoon. On the menu were earl grey cupcakes iced with dali’s clocks, scones with goats cheese and chilli jam and marshmallow clouds. The […]

Valentino @ Somerset House

January 28, 2013.Reading time 4 minutes.

137 garments designed by Valentino Garavani are currently on display at Somerset House. A space well regarded for its support of fashion has been transformed into an Italian showroom, presenting us with the work of the master of couture’s fifty year career. As with many of the world’s greats: Twiggy, Madonna and Iman to name […]

Sanja Ivekovic @ South London Gallery & Calvert 22

January 21, 2013.Reading time 5 minutes.

The second wave movement of feminism throughout the 1960s and 1970s saw a new approach to art history and criticism. Among those embracing change were Linda Nochlin, The Guerrilla Girls and Suzanne Lacy. An artist seldom talked about in Britain, Sanja Ivekovic is another artist who centres her work on how society views women. She […]

Royal Couture @ Fashion and Textiles Museum

January 14, 2013.Reading time 3 minutes.

2012 was not only the year Britain hosted the Olympic Games, but it was also the Diamond Jubilee. Following a year of decadence and celebration the Fashion and Textiles Museum are playing host to an exhibition celebrating the fashion designers to the Queen: Norman Hartnell, Hardy Amies and Frederick Fox. Of the 50 or so […]

Fourth Plinth @ ICA

January 7, 2013.Reading time 3 minutes.

So far, seven contemporary artists have presented work on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. The plinth which was originally designed to house an equestrian statue of William IV in 1841 stood empty after this became too expensive leaving a gap to be filled for nearly 150 years. The ICA is now presenting an exhibition […]