Lisa Barry works freelance as photographer, visual artist and writer. Lisa undertakes educational projects, from short term to long term residency based work for both primary and secondary schools. This might take various forms from visual literacy to developing narratives and film based work. Lisa’s creative history is a range of arts and crafts, literature and media. Previous school based projects have included working with other arts practitioners such as poets, actor/directors, choreographers/dancers and live artists. Collaborative work is embraced, as is working alongside teachers to develop mutually as mentors and practising artists.

Immediately after completing an MA in fine art Lisa felt it was important to undertake a project which would be light-hearted after three years of in-depth study. She bought a pair of red shoes in the sales which gave the initial idea for Lizzyredshoes, a continuing project of herself.

On January 1st Lisa began photographing a different pair of shoes every day for the whole year, which built up a large body of work. Lisa photographed footwear on and off feet, left abandoned in car parks, in unusual places; as many kinds and as different as possible. Although the project finished on December 31st 2004 there will always be that elusive pair that catch the eye, and the project oten influences other work, such as the relationship Lisa continues to have with salsa dancing.

In September 2005 Lisa produced a mixed media artwork, Shoe Chronicles, which incorporated almost 100 of the images alongside hand typed text. The text consisted of narratives, some true, some fictional, some a mixture of both. The important part of the work was developing the narratives so that no reader can tell where the truth could be identified. Much of Lisa’s personal work develops the combining of images and text, costume, and sometimes dance.

Recently she has seen her work shown at Liverpool Tate Gallery, and received an award from The Cheshire Building Society for ‘Best Depiction of Society of the Future’.