Lisa Barnard

This year, I was invited to the International Summer School of Photography in Latvia, to produce and run a workshop based around imagery and the Archive, entitled Archive Fever.   “In its work to maintain one memory at the expense of another, the archive not only preserves and curates memory, but buries it as well. Work with […]

From 05 – 30 October 2018, images from The Canary and The Hammer will be shown at SIPF International Portfolio Showcase, ‘IN OTHER IMAGE, WHEN WORDS FAIL’, at the National Library Plaza, Singapore.   “Unrestricted by any themes or subject, the International Portfolio Showcase is likened to a survey of the preoccupations of the practitioners, […]

I shall be showing  images from”The Canary and the Hammer” at Format Festival next year. For more information about the festival and a sneak preview from Louise Clements have a look at the British Journal of Photographies interview with Louise by Diane Smyth.    

2pm Join a discussion with our exhibiting artist, Mahwish Chishty, photographic artist Lisa Barnard and IWM contemporary art researcher, Clare Carolin, on the challenges of creating artworks which represent and comment on covert war. This event runs alongside the upcoming exhibition IWM Contemporary: Mahwish Chishty, which features a mixture of 2D and 3D works that combine […]

An interesting review of my book ‘Hyenas of the Battlefield, Machines in the Garden’ by Glulla Zorzi, cofounder of Micamera, a book shop and gallery in Milan specialising in photography, published in the aperture Photobook Review 2015.  

I have just returned from exhibiting ‘Hyenas of the Battlefield, Machines in the Garden’ in china. The project was curated by François Cheval from Museé Nicéphore Niépce in France after seeing the work at Rencontres d’Arles in the Discovery Award earlier this year.   The festival at Lianzhou was started in 2005 by Lin Wenzhao, then […]