| Contact Details |
| Tel: +44 (0)207 428 0895 |
| Mob: +44 (0)7713 629534 |
| Email: imgibson@yahoo.com |
Lectures and Specialist Tours
I lecture on a range of specialist subjects including Asian and Islamic art and the ancient Middle East and India. I also give talks on the architecture of London, looking at the city's development since 17th century including recent and ongoing construction. I am a lecturer for the National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts (NADFAS).
I guide specialist tours of major London museums. These include the Islamic, Indian and Chinese collections in the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Also the Mesopotamian, Assyrian and Persian Galleries in the British Museum.
I lead specialist tours of architecture in London. Depending on your requirements tours can focus on the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire, the Georgian period, Victorian buildings or 20th century and contemporary. Or look at particular types of buildings, churches, public, residential.
Current lecture subjects are as below. Click on the thumbnails for details of each lecture:
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Heavenly veils. Islamic ornament on buildings and artefacts |
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Islamic Buildings: From the Dome of the Rock to the Taj Mahal |
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Classic Turkish Buildings, Seljuk Medreses and Ottoman Mosques |
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Iznik Pottery, joyous floral designs of the Ottoman court |
| London Architecture - Great Fire to the modern day |  |
| The developing face of London, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly |  |
| The Road to Babylon – Early Mesopotamia in the British Museum |  |
| Mountain for the Gods, Hindu temples, Khajuraho, Angkor Wat and Neasden |  |
| Early Buddhist sculpture, Stupas and the emergence of the Buddha figure |  |
