# Lisa Barnard > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Lisa_Barnard > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Lisa_Barnard.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Barnard > Source revision: 1352004719 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|British photographer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} '''Lisa Barnard''' (born 1967) is a British [documentary photographer](/source/documentary_photographer), political artist,{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jul/23/lisa-barnard-best-photograph-margaret-thatcher-portrait-phoenix-flames | date = 23 July 2015 | accessdate = 23 July 2015 | first = Hannah | last = Partos | newspaper = [The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian) | location = London | title = Lisa Barnard's best photograph: Margaret Thatcher found in a cupboard}} and a [reader](/source/Reader_(academic_rank)) in photography at [University of South Wales](/source/University_of_South_Wales). She has published the books ''Chateau Despair'' (2012), ''Hyenas of the Battlefield, Machines in the Garden'' (2014) and ''The Canary and the Hammer'' (2019). Her work has been shown in a number of solo and group exhibitions and she is a recipient of the [Albert Renger-Patzsch](/source/Albert_Renger-Patzsch) Award. ==Life and work== Barnard graduated with a BA in Photography from the [University of Brighton](/source/University_of_Brighton) in 2005."[http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/faculty-of-arts-brighton/alumni-and-associates/associates-and-alumni/photography/Lisa-Barnard Lisa Barnard ] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103052620/http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/faculty-of-arts-brighton/alumni-and-associates/associates-and-alumni/photography/Lisa-Barnard |date=3 November 2014 }}", [University of Brighton](/source/University_of_Brighton). Accessed 21 December 2014. She gained an MA in Photography with Critical Theory."[http://staff.southwales.ac.uk/users/6858-lbarnard Lisa Barnard]", [University of South Wales](/source/University_of_South_Wales). Accessed 21 December 2014. Her first book, ''Chateau Despair'',{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/25/chateau-despair-iron-lady-shephard-review | date = 25 March 2013 | accessdate = 21 December 2014 | first = Andrew | last = Rawnsley | publisher = [The Observer](/source/The_Observer) | title = Chateau Despair by Lisa Barnard; The Real Iron Lady by Gillian Shephard – review}} explores the disused [Conservative Campaign Headquarters](/source/Conservative_Campaign_Headquarters) of the UK [Conservative Party](/source/Conservative_Party_(UK)) at 32 [Smith Square](/source/Smith_Square), Westminster, London – nicknamed Chateau Despair, the scene of many televised historic moments in Conservative history from [Margaret Thatcher](/source/Margaret_Thatcher)'s victory rallies to [Iain Duncan Smith](/source/Iain_Duncan_Smith)'s resignation. "Barnard's images speak of the fleeting nature of political power and the often makeshift working environments that lurk beyond the gaze of the TV camera or the official portrait."{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/feb/28/chateau-despair-photography-margaret-thatcher | date = 28 February 2013 | accessdate = 21 December 2014 | first = Sean | last = O'Hagan | authorlink = Sean O'Hagan (journalist) | publisher = [The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian) | title = How Margaret Thatcher's HQ turned into Chateau Despair}} ''Chateau Despair'' was included in critic [Sean O'Hagan](/source/Sean_O'Hagan_(journalist))'s list of "The best independent photobooks of 2013" in ''[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)''{{cite web | author= Sean O'Hagan | authorlink = Sean O'Hagan (journalist) | url = https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/photography-blog/2013/dec/13/best-independent-photobooks-2013 | title = The best independent photobooks of 2013 | date = 13 December 2013 | website = [The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)}} and [New Statesman](/source/New_Statesman) made it their Picture Book Of The Week.{{cite news | url = http://www.newstatesman.com/cultural-capital/2013/02/picture-book-week-chateau-despair | date = 15 February 2013 | accessdate = 22 December 2014 | newspaper = [New Statesman](/source/New_Statesman) | title = Picture Book Of The Week: Chateau Despair}} In the group exhibition ''Theatres of War'', curated by [Mark Power](/source/Mark_Power) in 2007, "Barnard documented the tragically tacky 'care packages' dispatched to American troops stationed abroad". [Peter Conrad](/source/Peter_Conrad_(academic)), reviewing the exhibition in ''The Guardian'' explained Barnard's photographs by asking "how can soldiers who ask their families to send them Beanie Babies and whoopee cushions hope to understand the gangs of Islamic insurgents they are fighting?".{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jul/15/poland.peterconrad | date = 15 July 2007 | accessdate = 22 December 2014 | first = Peter | last = Conrad | authorlink = Peter Conrad (academic) | publisher = [The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian) | title = Modern wounds stir ghost of Schindler}} Barnard's "complicated and intriguing multimedia project"{{cite journal | year = 2008 | title = Bang bang You're Dead | first = Gordon | last = Macdonald | authorlink = Gordon MacDonald (editor) | journal = Photoworks Biannual | issue = 11 | publisher = [Photoworks](/source/Photoworks) | isbn = 978-1903796283}} ''Virtual Iraq'' "examines the use of interactive media by the US army to recruit, train and treat military personnel before and after they embark on a tour of duty to the Middle East. It [...] explores the relationship between the US army, virtual reality and the gaming industry"{{cite news | url = http://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/news/local/virtual-iraq-comes-to-school-1-1420348 | date = 11 September 2008 | accessdate = 21 December 2014 | newspaper = [Eastbourne Herald](/source/Eastbourne_Herald) | title = Virtual Iraq comes to school}} in their Flatworld project. Barnard filmed it at the [Institute for Creative Technologies](/source/Institute_for_Creative_Technologies), "a research centre also funded by the military to create training applications using virtual reality in advanced technologies." [Gordon MacDonald](/source/Gordon_MacDonald_(editor)), reviewing ''Virtual Iraq'' in ''Photoworks Biannual'',Gordon MacDonald's text, ''Bang bang You're Dead'', for Photoworks Biannual 11, is reproduced within Barnard's web site [http://lisabarnard.co.uk/essays/bang-bang-youre-dead-gordon-macdonald-photoworks-issue-11/ here] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222045521/http://lisabarnard.co.uk/essays/bang-bang-youre-dead-gordon-macdonald-photoworks-issue-11/ |date=22 December 2014 }} said "Barnard’s project does not aim to direct you towards the ridiculous aspects of Flatworld or to point out the serious moral questions its existence raises. It achieves more than this by simply removing Flatworld from its context and holding all of its contradictions still to be viewed." Her second book, ''Hyenas of the Battlefield, Machines in the Garden'', examines the use of drones in the [war on terror](/source/war_on_terror). Barnard was [senior lecturer](/source/senior_lecturer) on documentary photography at [University of South Wales](/source/University_of_South_Wales), then a [reader](/source/Reader_(academic_rank)) in photography there from 2017. ==Publications by Barnard== *''Chateau Despair.'' London: Gost, 2012. {{ISBN|978-0-9574272-0-4}}. Essays by Sarah James ("Maggie and the Fairytale of the Free Market") and [Jeremy Till](/source/Jeremy_Till) ("Six Inches of Power"). Edition of 500 copies. *''Hyenas of the Battlefield, Machines in the Garden.'' London: Gost, 2014. {{ISBN|978-0-9574272-9-7}}. Essays by [Julian Stallabrass](/source/Julian_Stallabrass) ("The Missile and the Paperclip") and Eugénie Shinkle ("Drone Aesthetics"). Edition of 750 copies. *''The Canary and the Hammer.'' London: [Mack](/source/Mack_(publishing)), 2019. {{ISBN|978-1-912339-33-4}}. ==Publications with contributions by Barnard== *''Bringing the War Home.'' Bradford, England: [Impressions Gallery](/source/Impressions_Gallery), 2010. Foreword by Hilary Roberts, essay by Pippa Oldfield. Accompanied the exhibition ''Bringing the War Home''. *''9213.'' Brighton, England: [University of Brighton](/source/University_of_Brighton), 2013. Edition of 300. Two books in a slipcase with work by 35 University of Brighton alumni in one and that of graduates of 2013 in the other. ==Awards== *2003: Winner, Daily Telegraph/Novartis Visions of Science award, People category.{{cite news | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/3313082/Exposed-the-weird-and-the-wonderful.html | date = 24 Sep 2003 | accessdate = 21 December 2014 | first = David | last = Derbyshire | newspaper = [The Daily Telegraph](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph) | title = Exposed: the weird and the wonderful}} *2005: Runner-up, Photographer of the Year, [Guardian Student Media Award](/source/Guardian_Student_Media_Award).{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/sep/21/studentmediaawards.students | date = 21 September 2005 | accessdate = 21 December 2014 | newspaper = [The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian) | title = Guardian Student Media Awards 2005}} *2008: Danny Wilson Memorial Award, Brighton Photo Fringe, Brighton, England, for ''Virtual Iraq''.{{cite web|url=http://www.photofringe.org/participate/danny-wilson-memorial-award |accessdate=21 December 2014 |publisher=Brighton Photo Fringe |title=Danny Wilson Memorial Award |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221235900/http://www.photofringe.org/participate/danny-wilson-memorial-award |archivedate=21 December 2014 }} *2012: Albert Renger-Patzsch Award 2012, Dietrich Oppenberg Foundation, [Museum Folkwang](/source/Museum_Folkwang), Essen, Germany. €25000 for her book ''Hyenas of the Battlefield, Machines in the Garden''."[http://www.museum-folkwang.de/en/collection/department-of-photography/grants-and-prizes.html Grants and Prizes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228023153/http://www.museum-folkwang.de/en/collection/department-of-photography/grants-and-prizes.html |date=28 December 2014 }}", [Museum Folkwang](/source/Museum_Folkwang). Accessed 21 December 2014. *2015: First prize, Prestige Grant, [Getty Images](/source/Getty_Images). USD$15000 for her ''Sweat of the Sun'' project.{{cite web|url = http://press.gettyimages.com/getty-images-announces-recipients-of-new-prestige-grant/ | date = 7 October 2015 | accessdate = 8 October 2015 | publisher = [Getty Images](/source/Getty_Images) | title = Getty Images announces recipients of new Prestige Grant}} ==Exhibitions== ===Solo exhibitions=== *2009: ''Virtual Iraq,'' Phoenix Place, Lewes, England. Part of Brighton Photo Fringe during [Brighton Photo Biennial](/source/Brighton_Photo_Biennial). *2010: ''Maggie,'' Coop building, Brighton Photo Fringe, Brighton, England. Shown during Brighton Photo Biennial alongside ''The Election Project'' by [Simon Roberts](/source/Simon_Roberts_(photographer)).{{cite journal | year = 2010 | title = Lisa Barnard: Maggie | first = Sarah | last = James | journal = Photoworks Biannual | issue = 15 | pages = 72–79 | publisher = [Photoworks](/source/Photoworks) | isbn = 978-1903796320}}{{cite news | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/8014072/Brighton-Photo-Biennial.html | date = 22 September 2010 | accessdate = 21 December 2014 | first = Diane | last = Smyth | newspaper = [The Daily Telegraph](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph) | title = Brighton Photo Biennial}} * 2014: ''Artist of the Day,'' selected by [Simon Norfolk](/source/Simon_Norfolk), [Flowers Gallery](/source/Flowers_Gallery), London.{{cite web |title=Artist of the Day 2014 |url=https://www.flowersgallery.com/exhibitions/view/artist-of-the-day-2014 |website=Flowers Gallery |accessdate=3 January 2019}} *2015: ''Hyenas of the Battlefield, Machines in the Garden,'' Grande Halle, Parc des Ateliers, [Rencontres d'Arles](/source/Rencontres_d'Arles), Arles, France, 6 July – 20 September 2015.{{cite web | url = http://www.rencontres-arles.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=ARLAR1_213_VForm&FRM=Frame%3AARLAR1_247&LANGSWI=1&LANG=English | accessdate = 23 July 2015 | publisher = [Rencontres d'Arles](/source/Rencontres_d'Arles) | title = Lisa Barnard: Hyenas of the Battlefield, Machines in the Garden | archive-date = 24 July 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150724035355/http://www.rencontres-arles.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=ARLAR1_213_VForm&FRM=Frame%3AARLAR1_247&LANGSWI=1&LANG=English | url-status = dead }} *2022: ''Lisa Barnard - The Canary and the Hammer'', Centre de la photographie Genève{{Cite web |last=VADIAN. NET AG |first=St Gallen |title=Lisa Barnard - The Canary and the Hammer |url=https://www.fotografie.ch/de/Lisa+Barnard+The+Canary+and+the+Hammer/701103/detail.htm |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=www.fotografie.ch |language=de}}{{Cite web |title=The Canary and the Hammer – Centre Photographie Genève |url=https://www.centrephotogeneve.ch/en/expo/exposition-the-canary-and-the-hammer-de-lisa-barnard/ |access-date=2025-01-25 |language=en-US}} ===Collaborative exhibitions=== *2006: Permanent display of holograms of the [Children's Laureate](/source/Children's_Laureate)s ([Quentin Blake](/source/Quentin_Blake), [Anne Fine](/source/Anne_Fine), [Michael Morpurgo](/source/Michael_Morpurgo) and [Jacqueline Wilson](/source/Jacqueline_Wilson)), [Unicorn Theatre](/source/Unicorn_Theatre) for Children, London. Collaboration with holographic artist [Rob Munday](/source/Rob_Munday).{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jun/08/news | date = 8 June 2007 | accessdate = 22 December 2014 | first = Julia | last = Eccleshare | newspaper = [The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian) | title = Spooky view of children's laureates in new portraits}} *2008: ''Once Upon a Moment in Time,'' University of Brighton, Brighton, England, 3 October – 16 November 2008. Collaboration with [Annis Joslin](/source/Annis_Joslin)."[http://bpb.org.uk/file-uploads/files/file/BPB%20programmeXLR.pdf Brighton Photo Biennial 2008] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221211046/http://bpb.org.uk/file-uploads/files/file/BPB%20programmeXLR.pdf |date=21 December 2014 }}", [Brighton Photo Biennial](/source/Brighton_Photo_Biennial). Accessed 21 December 2014. *2009: ''Polska by the Sea,'' Eastbourne train station, Eastbourne, England. Part of Eastbourne Festival 2009. Photographs by Barnard, text transcriptions of interviews by Mark Hewitt.{{cite news | url = http://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/local/poles-are-on-track-in-town-1-1426656 | date = 17 April 2009 | accessdate = 22 December 2014 | newspaper = [Hastings & St. Leonards Observer](/source/Hastings_%26_St._Leonards_Observer) | title = Poles are on track in town}} ===Group exhibitions=== *2007: ''Theatres of War,'' Kraków Month of Photography, Schindler Factory, Kraków, Poland. Curated by [Mark Power](/source/Mark_Power). Also included photographs by [Luc Delahaye](/source/Luc_Delahaye), [Geert van Kesteren](/source/Geert_van_Kesteren), [Christopher Stewart](/source/Christopher_Stewart_(artist)) and [Donovan Wylie](/source/Donovan_Wylie)."[http://www.markpower.co.uk/media/pdf/Theatres%20of%20War.pdf Theatres of War]", [Mark Power](/source/Mark_Power). Accessed 21 December 2014."[http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/whats-on/news-and-events/2007/news/kill-house-an-architecture-of-fear?SQ_DESIGN_NAME=printer-friendly Kill House: An architecture of fear] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221210236/http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/whats-on/news-and-events/2007/news/kill-house-an-architecture-of-fear?SQ_DESIGN_NAME=printer-friendly |date=21 December 2014 }}", [University of Brighton](/source/University_of_Brighton). Accessed 21 December 2014.Mark Power's essay for the 2007 [Krakow Photomonth](/source/Krakow_Photomonth) catalogue ''Theatres of War'' is made available within his web site [http://www.markpower.co.uk/media/pdf/Theatres%20of%20War.pdf here] *2010: ''Bringing the War Home,'' Impressions Gallery, Bradford, England, 17 September – 14 November 2010. Curated by Pippa Oldfield. Also included photographs by [Peter van Agtmael](/source/Peter_van_Agtmael), [Sama Alshaibi](/source/Sama_Alshaibi), [Farhad Ahrarnia](/source/Farhad_Ahrarnia), [Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin](/source/Adam_Broomberg_%26_Oliver_Chanarin), [Edmund Clark](/source/Edmund_Clark), [Kay May](/source/Kay_May), [Asef Ali Mohammad](/source/Asef_Ali_Mohammad) and [Christopher Sims](/source/Christopher_Sims)."[http://www.impressions-gallery.com/exhibitions/exhibition.php?id=36 Bringing the War Home] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304221343/http://www.impressions-gallery.com/exhibitions/exhibition.php?id=36 |date=4 March 2016 }}", [Impressions Gallery](/source/Impressions_Gallery). Accessed 3 December 2014. *2011: ''Maggie,'' Photo50, [London Art Fair](/source/London_Art_Fair), London. Curated by Celia Davis for [Photoworks](/source/Photoworks) with David Spero."[http://www.londonartfair.co.uk/files/laf20highlights_press_release_jan_2011_pack2.pdf 23rd year for London Art Fair] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221212932/http://www.londonartfair.co.uk/files/laf20highlights_press_release_jan_2011_pack2.pdf |date=21 December 2014 }}", [London Art Fair](/source/London_Art_Fair). Accessed 21 December 2014. *2011: ''Collateral Damage,'' Look 11 photography festival, Liverpool. Curated by [Paul Lowe](/source/Paul_Lowe_(photographer)) and Harry Hardie. Included photographs from Barnard's ''Virtual Iraq'' as well as photographs by [Mishka Henner](/source/Mishka_Henner), [Simon Norfolk](/source/Simon_Norfolk), [Tim Hetherington](/source/Tim_Hetherington), [Ziyah Gafić](/source/Ziyah_Gafi%C4%87), Paul Lowe, [Edmund Clark](/source/Edmund_Clark), [Ashley Gilbertson](/source/Ashley_Gilbertson), [Brett Van Ort](/source/Brett_Van_Ort), Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin."[http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/3100/ Collateral Damage]", [University of the Arts London](/source/University_of_the_Arts_London). Accessed 21 December 2014.{{cite news | url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-13379865 | date = 12 May 2011 | accessdate = 21 December 2014 | publisher = [BBC News](/source/BBC_News) | title = Libya death photographer Tim Hetherington's work shown}} *2011: ''XXI: Conflicts in a New Century,'' Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, TX. Co-curated by [Charles Dee Mitchell](/source/Charles_Dee_Mitchell) and [Cynthia Mulcahy](/source/Cynthia_Mulcahy) with images by Barnard, [Stephanie Sinclair](/source/Stephanie_Sinclair), [James Nachtwey](/source/James_Nachtwey), Chris Anderson, [Jamel Shabazz](/source/Jamel_Shabazz), [Eugene Richards](/source/Eugene_Richards), [Christopher Morris](/source/Christopher_Morris_(photographer)), [Lori Grinker](/source/Lori_Grinker), [Rania Matar](/source/Rania_Matar), [Kael Alford](/source/Kael_Alford) and [Thorne Anderson](/source/Thorne_Anderson), Tim Hetherington, [Gary Knight](/source/Gary_Knight_(photographer)), [Natan Dvir](/source/Natan_Dvir), [Akintunde Akinleye](/source/Akintunde_Akinleye), [Guy Tillim](/source/Guy_Tillim) and [Fatagoma Silue](/source/Fatagoma_Silue)."[http://www3.dmagazine.com/events/details/XXI-Conflicts-in-a-New-Century-Photography-Exhibit XXI: Conflicts in a New Century - Photography Exhibit]", [D Magazine](/source/D_Magazine). Accessed 23 December 2014. *2013: ''Engines of War,'' Gasser and Grunert, New York. Curated by Charles Dee Mitchell and Cynthia Mulcahy with images by Barnard, [David Cotterrell](/source/David_Cotterrell), Jamel Shabazz, [Benjamin Lowy](/source/Benjamin_Lowy), [Ghaith Abdul-Ahad](/source/Ghaith_Abdul-Ahad), Eugene Richards, [Anthony Suau](/source/Anthony_Suau), Christopher Morris, [Teun Voeten](/source/Teun_Voeten) and [Heather Ainsworth](/source/Heather_Ainsworth)."[http://gassergrunert.net/test/?cat=1346&paged=53 Engines of War] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221213128/http://gassergrunert.net/test/?cat=1346&paged=53 |date=21 December 2014 }}", Gasser and Grunert. Accessed 21 December 2014. *2015: ''Whiplash Transition,'' Exposure, [Format International Photography Festival](/source/Format_International_Photography_Festival), Derby, UK, March–April 2015.{{cite web | url = http://www.formatfestival.com/artists/lisa-barnard | accessdate = 10 November 2015 | publisher = Format Festival | title = Libya death photographer Tim Hetherington's work shown | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151116131747/http://www.formatfestival.com/artists/lisa-barnard | archive-date = 16 November 2015 | url-status = dead }} ==Notes== ==References== {{reflist|2}} ==External links== * {{official website}} *[https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2013/feb/28/chateau-despair-lisa-barnard-in-pictures 'Study in blue: from Conservative party centre to Chateau Despair – in pictures'] {{Authority control (arts)}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Barnard, Lisa}} Category:Living people Category:1967 births Category:20th-century British photographers Category:20th-century British women photographers Category:21st-century British women photographers Category:Alumni of the University of Brighton Category:British political artists --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Lisa Barnard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Barnard) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Barnard?action=history)). 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