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.

Out of Focus @ Saatchi

July 11, 2012.Reading time 1 minute.

Out of Focus seems to be a fitting title for the current exhibition being held at the Saatchi gallery, as so many photographers are exhibiting it truly is hard to focus on one. 38 photographers from 14 countries take up the space, exhibiting contemporary photographs. While there is no sense of cohesion among the exhibitors […]

Tali Lennox & Co. @ Whisper Gallery

July 5, 2012.Reading time 4 minutes.

So, as if we didn’t have enough reasons to envy models: beauty, style, bodies to die for, the list goes on. It now appears, some of them have other talents relating to aesthetics – that talent being art. Currently on show at the Whisper Gallery is artwork from four of the fashion elite, and it […]

Polly Morgan @ All Visual Arts

June 14, 2012.Reading time 2 minutes.

Polly Morgan first came to my attention with her entry ‘Resurrection’ in the big egg hunt. Morgan had suspended a young chick inside a clear egg, the chick hung from a balloon, which was in place of the yolk. She described this as being like a giant lung, lifting the body gracefully to heaven. Now […]

Christian Louboutin @ Design Museum

June 5, 2012.Reading time 2 minutes.

For everyone in London wondering where all the girls have gone, look no further than the Design Museum. Women are quite literally queuing around the block for their chance to see the fabulous world of Christian Louboutin, with very few men in sight. A twenty year retrospective of the Parisian shoe designer has transformed the […]

Hermes @ Burlington Gardens

May 22, 2012.Reading time 4 minutes.

My mother once asked me: ‘Wouldn’t you rather buy art than an Hermes bag?’ While it is no secret that I one day aspire to be the proud owner of a Birkin, my adoration for art has often given the bag second place in my list of currently unattainable items. However, after visiting the Leather […]