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.

Wilhelm Sasnal @ Whitechapel

December 4, 2011.Reading time 4 minutes.

Wilhelm Sasnal is a Polish painter and filmmaker who lives and works in Krakow. His exhibition on show at the Whitechapel Gallery gives its audience a fresh view of history, politics and contemporary art. While there has been extensive comparison between Sasnal and Gerhard Richter, after having seen Panorama at the Tate Modern earlier this […]

s[edition]

November 28, 2011.Reading time 4 minutes.

Introducing s[edition], an online art gallery where you can buy your own digital art at affordable prices. The virtual platform for contemporary art was cofounded by famed art dealer Harry Blain and is designed to bring art to a new audience. It is free to sign up and users can follow artists such as Damien […]

Secret @ Royal College of Art

November 23, 2011.Reading time 1 minute.

Now in its 18th year, the Royal College of Art’s Secret Exhibition is home to over 2,900 original postcard sized artworks. Designs by artists, fashionistas, film makers and up and coming artists from the Royal College of Art itself feature in the impressive collection. From Emin to Erdem, the exhibition boasts an impressive display of […]

William Morris @ Two Temple Place

November 16, 2011.Reading time 3 minutes.

Two Temple Place is a neo-Gothic mansion on the London Embankment. In 1895, it cost £250,000 to build for William Waldorf Astor, equal to £25million today. The building, which was designed to characterize literature and embody art, craft and architecture, encompasses Spanish mahogany hammer-beam ceilings and marble floors. This dazzling and dramatic building is home […]

Dazed & Confused @ Somerset House

November 8, 2011.Reading time 3 minutes.

In celebration of their 20th anniversary, Dazed & Confused Magazine are staging an exhibition at Somerset House. The show documents the beginnings of the publication; from when Jefferson Hack and Ian Rankin first met, to the magazine today, in its third generation. Launched in 1991, London, two years before I was born, Dazed & Confused […]