I am an artist working collaboratively with clinicians, academics, and patients to explore how creative practice can operate ethically and meaningfully within healthcare. Through long-term, embedded projects, I develop visual and participatory work that centres lived experience, patient agency, and care, creating space for reflection, dialogue, and shared understanding across disciplines.
 

"Emma Barnard is an outstanding artist–facilitator whose PPI work on the MARGIN meningioma project brings rigour, warmth, and real translational value to neurosurgical research.

She designs and delivers highly structured workshops and connects with patients with ease, surfacing the discrepancy between our time-pressured, problem–solution surgical mindset and the richer narratives that emerge when you slow down and listen emphatically and with creative insight".

Anand Pandit, Academic Clinical Lecturer in Neurosurgery at High Dimensional Neurology