brooch using symbolic language
19
March 2025

John Singer Sargent and Fashion

Welcome to The Arts Society Welwyn Garden
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 10:30
Campus West Welwyn Garden City AL8 6BX
Online Event

A chance to revisit the elegant world of artist John Singer Sargent following last year's fabulous Tate Britain exhibition

John Singer Sargent was THE international art star of the Gilded Age. He was most famous for his dramatic and stylish portraits of the elegant and wealthy. He brought his subjects to life, but also used fashion as a powerful tool to depict identity and personality. Cindy Polemis explores how John Singer Sargent 'fashioned' his world.

THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Mrs Cindy Polemis

Cindy Polemis is an art historian, independent lecturer and art guide. She has a BA in Modern History from Oxford University and as a mature student she went back to university to study first for a BA and then for a Masters in History of Art at Birkbeck College, London University. Before that she spent many years as a radio producer and presenter for the BBC World Service working in news and current affairs. Since 2016 Cindy has worked as an official art guide at Tate Britain and Tate Modern. She has also been a trustee at the Museum of the Home, formerly the Geffrye Museum. Cindy has accumulated a wide range of art historical knowledge ranging from 18th European and British art to the contemporary international art scene. She has been an official guide for both Frieze Masters and Frieze Art Fairs in London. She is particularly keen to draw parallels with art and social history and her lectures are accessible and engaging, drawing out the stories of art and artists which are steeped in human emotions and experiences which we all share.