Kate Garner

{{Short description|British photographer, fine artist and singer (born 1954)}} {{EngvarB|date=September 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2017}} {{Infobox artist | image = | bgcolour = | name = Kate Garner | imagesize = | caption = Kate Garner | birth_name = Kathryn Mary Garner | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1954|7|9}} | birth_place = [[Wigan, Lancashire]] | field = Artist

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'''Kathryn Mary Garner''' (born 9 July 1954)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Larkin|first1=Colin|year=2006|title=Haysi Fantayzee. In The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]}}</ref> is a British photographer, [[fine arts|fine artist]] and singer.

==Early life== {{BLP unreferenced section|date=February 2024}} Garner was born in [[Wigan, Lancashire]] to Anne Philomena Shannon and George Sandeman Garner, a factory worker and a sailor. She was expelled from high school at the age of 16, and became a [[Runaway (dependent)|runaway]] who joined [[Family International|The Children of God]]. To escape the grasp of the cult, she hitchhiked from London through eastern Europe to [[India]] in 1970, where she lived for a year before being located by her parents. She attended art school at [[Blackpool]]; later she moved to London, where she began to both photograph and model for magazines such as ''[[The Face (magazine)|The Face]]'' and ''[[i-D]]''.

==Career== Garner first came into the public eye as one third of the 1980s [[avant-garde]], [[New wave music|new wave]] [[popular music|pop]] project [[Haysi Fantayzee]], along with other members [[Jeremy Healy]] and [[Paul Caplin]]. Emanating from street arts scenes such as the [[Blitz Kids (New Romantics)|Blitz Kids]] that were cropping up in London in the early 1980s, Haysi Fantayzee's music combined [[reggae]], [[country music|country]] and [[Electro music|electro]] with political and sociological lyrics couched as [[nursery rhyme]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.haysifantayzee.net/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090817130946/http://www.haysifantayzee.net/|url-status=dead|title=medic alert services|archive-date=17 August 2009|website=Haysifantayzee.net|access-date=2 August 2020}}</ref>

Haysi Fantayzee combined their extreme clothes sense – described<ref>Peter Holt writing in the "Ad Lib" column in London newspaper the ''Evening Standard'', 16 June 1983</ref> as combining white [[Rastafari movement|Rasta]], tribal chieftain and Dickensian styles – with a quirky musical sound comparable to other new wave musical pop acts of the era, such as [[Bow Wow Wow]], [[Adam and the Ants]] and [[Bananarama]].<ref>''New Musical Express'', 10 July 1982</ref> They appeared several times on the [[BBC Television]] programme ''[[Top of the Pops]]''. Despite being touted by [[David Bowie]]'s producer [[Tony Visconti]] as the next big thing,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://happyukulele.com/haysi-fantayzees-kate-garner-at-work-on-new-music-and-new-sound/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411015246/http://happyukulele.com/haysi-fantayzees-kate-garner-at-work-on-new-music-and-new-sound/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-04-11 |title=Haysi Fantayzee's Kate Garner at Work on New Music and New Sound |website=Happyukulele.com |date=12 May 2011 |access-date=13 May 2013}}</ref> the group quickly disbanded after releasing three hit singles, "[[John Wayne Is Big Leggy]]", "[[Shiny Shiny]]" and "Holy Joe", and an album, ''[[Battle Hymns for Children Singing]]'', that went [[Music recording sales certification|gold]].<ref name="FT">{{cite news|url=https://www.ft.com/content/022dfdc8-3cd0-11dd-b958-0000779fd2ac|title=N/K|newspaper=[[Financial Times]]|date=18 June 2008|access-date=2 August 2020}}</ref>

Garner then returned to painting, photography and video, launching a successful media arts career, starting with her collaboration with [[Sinéad O'Connor]], in which she created memorable images of O'Connor for her 1987 debut, ''[[The Lion and the Cobra]]''. Garner has since photographed a wide range of musicians and [[celebrities]], including [[David Bowie]],Twigs, Bjork, Yoko Ono, [[John Galliano]], and [[Kate Moss]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Maloney|first1=D|date=April 2009|issue=367|title=Haysi pop art wallpaper|newspaper=[[Gay Times]]}}</ref> Her work has appeared in the American and British versions of ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'' and ''[[Harper's Bazaar]]'' as well as ''[[W (magazine)|W]]'' magazine, ''[[Interview (magazine)|Interview]]'', ''i-D'', ''The Face'', ''[[GQ]]'', ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'', ''[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]]'' and ''[[The Sunday Times]]''.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}

She had her first multimedia exhibition in February 2007 at the Painter's Gallery on [[Charing Cross Road]], London, and a year later had an exhibition in [[San Francisco]], California, titled 'Identity Artists'.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.varnishfineart.com/artist/kategarner|title=Varnish Fine Art|date=29 September 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929014724/http://www.varnishfineart.com/artist/kategarner|access-date=2 August 2020|archive-date=29 September 2007}}</ref> She has shown at/with Galerie13 and Art Cube in Paris.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.galerie13jm.com/|title=Jeannette Mariani, Paris: Anne Brunet, Carlos Enriquez-Gonzalez, Danidan, Espira, Koharutie, Nina Dotti, Pepe Lopez, Sabrina Montiel-Soto, Todd Narbey, U235|website=Galerie13jm.com|access-date=2 August 2020}}</ref> her wallpapers are archived at the Victoria and Albert museum in London https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1174627/brilliant-me-wallpaper-de-angelis/

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