Lisa Barnard graduated from the Faculty of Arts in 2005. She is a photographic artist who lives and works in Lewes, East Sussex, UK.

Of particular interest to Barnard are current debates concerning psychological and post-Marxist aesthetic theories, the political climate and Revolutions in Military Affairs. Exhibitions include Theatres of War (2007), Virtual Iraq (2008), Maggie (2010) and Bringing the War Home (2011). She was the winner of the Albert Renger-Patzsch European Book Award in 2012.

Her first book, Chateau Despair, about the former Conservative Central Office at 32 Smiths Square, London, was published by GOST in 2013.