Kate Garner
Kate Garner is an English singer and photographer. She was born on 9 July 1953 in Wigan, Lancashire. Garner was one third of the trio of 1980s avant-garde, new wave pop project called Haysi Fantayzee, the other members being Jeremy Healy and Paul Caplin. Their music combined reggae, country and electro with political and sociological lyrics couched as nursery rhymes.[1]
Haysi Fantayzee combined their extreme clothes sense - described[2] as combining white 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.[3] They appeared several times on the BBC Television programme Top of The Pops. However, the group quickly disbanded after releasing three hit singles John Wayne Is Big Leggy, Shiny Shiny and Holy Joe, and an album that went gold.[4]
Garner then launched a successful photographic career, working over a period with Sinéad O'Connor, creating memorable images of O'Connor including working on her 1987 debut, The Lion and the Cobra. Garner has also photographed many musicians and celebrities. Among them are: Dr. Dre, Leigh Bowery, JT LeRoy, Angelina Jolie,Cate Blanchett,Anne Hathaway, David Bowie, Cameron Diaz, PJ Harvey, John Galliano, Björk, and Kate Moss.[citation needed] Her work has appeared in the American and British versions of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. She has also worked for W magazine, Interview, GQ, Vanity Fair, Elle and The Sunday Times.[citation needed] She is a continuing contributor to i-D magazine.[citation needed]
She had her first 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'.[5] Her work was in a group show at the Riflemaker Gallery in January 2009.[6] Garner's work is available for sale at Galerie13 in Paris.[7] and Bankrobber Gallery, London. http://www,bankrobbergallery.com. Her work has appeared at the Affordable Art Fair in London 2009, Brussels 2010 and Paris 2010 . She was sponsored by the Arts Council for her show at The Future Gallery off Charing Cross Road in January 2010.
She recently designed a wallpaper collection.[8] The wallpaper is archived at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and is in a touring exhibition with the Whitworth Gallery from 2010-2012.
Garner continues to perform with her husband, Emit Bloch, and lives with him and their daughter Grace, in London.
[edit] References
- ^ Haysifantayzee.net
- ^ Peter Holt writing in the Ad Lib column in London newspaper The Standard, 16 June 1983
- ^ New Musical Express, 10 July 1982
- ^ Financial Times, June 18 2008
- ^ Varnishfineart.com
- ^ Riflemakergallery.org
- ^ Galerie13jm.com
- ^ Kategarner.org,http://www.deangelisandgarner.com.
