Cindy Polemis is an art historian and an independent lecturer. She has a B.A in History from Oxford University and as a mature student she graduated from Birkbeck College, London University with a B.A and then M.A. in History of Art. She spent many years as a radio producer and presenter for BBC World Service. Since 2016 she has been a lecturer and official art guide at Tate Modern and Tate Britain. She is a specialist guide at Frieze Masters London and an accredited lecturer for The Arts Society along with several other independent organisations, including Art Historical London and The Royal Overseas League. Cindy has accumulated a wide range of art historical knowledge ranging from 18th century European and British art to the contemporary international art scene. She was a trustee for six years at London’s Museum of the Home, previously known as The Geffrye Museum, which re-opened in 2021 after a major refurbishment.
Cindy loves to share her passion and enthusiasm for art with her audience in an engaging and accessible way:her lectures are stimulating and fun and she always sends her audience away thinking differently about what they have seen and heard
Bespoke Art Tours
Cindy can curate private bespoke art tours in public and private galleries and special exhibitions throughout London and beyond. She works with clients directly in a personal and engaging way to suit their interests. She is also happy to structure art tours which are tailor made for younger audiences. Her aim is to bring every art work alive with extensive historical and anecdotal knowledge. Some of her recent tours have included 'The Disruptive Power of Art' examining a selection of works in the permanent collection of Tate Modern; 'From Plate to Palette': the depiction and symbolism of food in art; and 'Painting in a Man's World: how female artists have succeeded in making their mark through history’. Duration of tours can be from 2 hours to all day.
I try to update my blog whenever possible-as you can see it’s a bit of an occasional dalliance! I hope you enjoy reading my posts!
Lectures Talks and Articles
The Energy of Exile: French Artists in London 1870-1904
The Stories of Art: A Young Person’s Tour of the National Gallery
1932: Picasso's 'Year of Wonders'
Art After 1945: The Creation of a New Visual language
The Disruptive Power of Art: Modern and Contemporary Art after World War Two
From Plate to Palette: A History of the Depiction of Food in Art- lecture series
Food for Thought: single lecture on food symbolism in art
Turner’s Modern World
Will the Real Andy Warhol Please Stand Up
Did Britart Change the World?
Here’s Looking at You: A History of Portraiture- also as three part lecture series
The Stuff of Nightmares: How Artists have explored the Symbolism of Dreams and Nightmare Visions
Picturing the City
Do Not Adjust Your Eyesight! The Discombobulating World of Op-Art
Miniatures:Tiny Treasures Close to our Hearts
Are you a Cat person or a Dog Person? Dogs and Cats in Art
Paris in the Belle Epoque
Let’s Hear it for the Girls!: Britain’s Leading Contemporary Female Artists who Should be Household Names
Hilma af Klint: Europe’s First Abstract Artist?
Surrealist Women
The Artists Who Spoke to the Dead: Spiritualism and Theosophy and the Creation of an Abstract World (three part lecture series)
Hogarth and Europe
Painting Now: How this Time Honoured Medium is the Art Form of Choice for Young Emerging Artists
Walter Sickert: The Master of Menacing Drama
Northern Lights: Spotlighting Four North European Artists and their Role in Defining Turn of the Century Modernism
Cezanne: Tensions and Contradictions of the ‘Father of Modern Art
Women Who Made Modernism: Paula Modersohn Becker,Kathe Kollwitz and Gabriele Munter
M.K. Ciurlionis: The Fantastical Worlds of Lithuania’s Most Celebrated Artist
Pioneering Female Photographers
There’s Still Life Yet in Still Life
John Singer Sargent’s Eye for Fashion
The Art of Rubbish: From Trash to Treasure
Toulouse Lautrec’s Paris
Articles
Gerhard Richter:The Art of Seeing and Looking Away, 18/09/2019, standpointmag.co.uk
William Blake:Method and Madness, November 2019
Pieter de Hooch:From the Shadow of Vermeer, December 2019
Feast and Fast at the Fitzwilliam
Van Eyck’s Optical Revolution
A Breath of Fresh Paint at the Whitechapel
Profile of Cindy Polemis at:
www.fabulousfabsters.com/cindy-polemis-bespoke-art-tours-london
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