Leading Health Academic to Give Talk on David Bowie

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Professor Faith Gibson presents latest lecture from The Arts Society Chiswick

Find out more about the many faces of David Bowie that have inspired generations of music fans, designers, authors, actors, and a personal account of that impact from an academic children’s cancer nurse in the latest in a series of talks present by Arts Society Chiswick (formerly Chiswick Decorative and Fine Arts Society).

Faith Gibson is a Professor of Child Health and Cancer Care at the University of Surrey and at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust in London. She has published extensively, with over 100 peer-reviewed publications and four textbooks; she regularly speaks to multi-professional international audiences about her work.

Alongside a range of ‘arts’ related social activities, she is an aficionado of the late David Bowie. For her, as for many, the 6 of July 1972 performance of David Bowie and The Spiders from Mars on Top of the Pops was a major turning point. Viewed on a very small colour TV set in a relative’s sitting room in Ushaw Moor, Durham, she was thinking ‘Wow’; her cousins were thinking ‘What is that?’.

To be named, although in a list of about 2,000 other loyal supporters, in a book entitled Speed of Life (2012), has to be listed as one of her most important accolades; personal of course, not professional.

The lecture starts at 8pm on Thursday 14 September in the Malinova Room at The Polish Centre (POSK), 238-246 King Street, Hammersmith, W6 0RF. All are welcome and you are encouraged to arrive early to join the rest of the audience for a pre-lecture drink. Tickets cost £8 for non-members.

Forthcoming talks to be presented by Art Society Chiswick:

12 October 2017 The Horse and Modern Art from George Stubbs to Mark Wallinger
9 November 2017 Basingstoke and its Contribution to World Culture

September 10, 2017