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.
When I first head about the current exhibition of Middle Eastern photography at the V&A I was beyond excited. Given that many of my ancestors have grown up here I was interested to see how the show would be staged. Hoping for fresh light to be shed on a part of the world which is […]
After 12 years the White Cube gallery in Hoxton Square closes its doors tomorrow. The gallery which is close to my heart will remain open in Bermondsey and Mayfair. Now that the east London location closes hopefully the success of the newest Bermondsey gallery will be enough to satiate the needs of many contemporary art […]
In the run up to Christmas you would hardly expect to see an exhibition focusing on death. During this festive period where most of us are at our merriest the Wellcome Collection are hosting the public with the gloomy collection of print dealer Richard Harris. The show is a fantastic insight into the place of […]
The gallery which gave us taxidermy for the summer is now presenting its audience with feathers for the winter. Six months ago All Visual Arts gave us the preserved animal remains from the Serengeti of Polly Morgan. Now, we are shown nature from closer to home, the beguiling sculptures of Kate MccGwire constructed out of […]
Following its photographic success from its Tim Walker exhibition, Somerset House plays host to the Positive View Foundation’s inaugural exhibition: Cartier-Bresson: A Question of Colour. In this one-of-a-kind exhibition the frenchman who is famed for his black and white photography is presented alongside the works of 14 international contemporary photographers. Each has been inspired by […]