Watts @ Compton

The danger of living on the outskirts of London is that when looking to explore art and culture, anything outside of the capital is overlooked. Having attended school in Surrey, most of my art-based trips were to the same central London galleries and museums that people know nationwide as household names. Thus, it came as […]

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Musee Fesch @ Corsica

I have just returned from a post-masters degree break to Ajaccio, Corsica. Before heading off on my trip of relaxation I knew next to nothing about the town apart from the fact that it was significantly warmer than London and that Napoleon Bonaparte was born there. All of my research skills had been spent on […]

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Shoes @ V & A

A good pair of shoes has the power to elevate an outfit, to make the wearer feel special and demonstrate a piece of someone’s signature style. Shoes can be a source of comfort, pain, elegance and desire. Throughout history, the humble shoe has been a symbol of status and luxury around the globe, with the […]

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Gallery Girl is FOUR today! I started the blog just before enrolling into university as a place to document the exhibitions that I was going to. Who would have believed that four years later I would have completed two degrees as well as the blog, which has now seen me invited to exhibitions all over […]

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Marc Quinn @ White Cube

I am not going to even bother talking about the paintings inside Marc Quinn’s current Toxic Sublime exhibition at White Cube. They are completely insignificant and forgettable compared to his sculptures, and they alone would have sufficed. I am a cancerian and perhaps that is why I am drawn to shells. Quinn’s sculptures inside the […]

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