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.

Rain Room @ Barbican

November 5, 2012.Reading time 1 minute.

rAndom international have managed to control the uncontrollable – the weather. In a dark room with bright spotlights the artists have created a space in which we experience a downpour indoors without getting the slightest bit wet. The spacial installation consists of 2,500 litres of water falling at 1,000 litres per minute which is recycled […]

Pre-Raphaelites @ Tate Britain

November 1, 2012.Reading time 8 minutes.

Love them or hate them: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the marmite of art history have landed centre stage at the Tate Britain this season. The YBA’s of the 19th century: John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt formed in 1848 in a bid to break away from the high renaissance art favoured by […]

Anish Kapoor @ Lisson

October 25, 2012.Reading time 3 minutes.

An exhibition at both Bell Street locations has just been opened to celebrate the Lisson Gallery’s thirtieth birthday and its relationship with Turner Prize winning artist Anish Kapoor. The show seems to me to be particularly raw. The sculptures exhibited are prominently natural; taking from nature, showing rough and smooth and while the forms which […]

Vidal Sassoon @ Somerset House

October 21, 2012.Reading time 1 minute.

The Spring/Summer 2013 runway shows this year screamed out sixties. Among many things that spring to mind when thinking about the era are Biba, Mary Quant’s mini skirts and Vidal Sassoon’s bob. The influential British hairdresser who passed away in May is having his tribute made at Somerset house in a series of photographs, artwork […]

Chanel @ Saatchi

October 17, 2012.Reading time 2 minutes.

An exhibition showcasing 113 photographs taken by Karl Lagerfeld is currently on display at Saatchi Gallery. Each photograph features an array of famous faces adorned in a Chanel black jacket. The portraits are all taken in black and white in a collaboration with former French Vogue editor Carine Roitfield who styled the models. The travelling […]