Education
She attended art school at Blackpool in the North of England and later moved to London, where she began to both photograph and model for up and coming magazines such as The Face and i-Doctorate.
She attended art school at Blackpool in the North of England and later moved to London, where she began to both photograph and model for up and coming magazines such as The Face and i-Doctorate.
Garner first came widely into the public eye as one third of the 1980s avant-garde, new wave popular project Haysi Fantayzee, along with other members Jeremy Healy and Paul Caplin. Catapulted to stardom by their visual sensibilities, Haysi Fantayzee combined their extreme clothes sense - described as combining white Rasta, tribal chieftain and Dickensian styles - with a quirky musical sound comparable to other new wave musical popular acts of the era, such as Bow Wow Wow, Adam and the Ants and Bananarama. They appeared several times on the British Broadcasting Corporation Television programme Top of The Pops.
Despite being touted by Bowie producer Tony Visconti as the next big thing, 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.
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 Doctor Dre, Leigh Bowery, JT LeRoy, Angelina Jolie, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, David Bowie, Cameron Diaz, PJ Harvey, John Galliano, Björk and Kate Moss.
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". Her work was in a group show at the Riflemaker Gallery in January 2009.
Garner"s work is available for sale at/with Galerie13 in Paris., Artcube in Paris, Bankrobber Gallery, Gabrielle du Plooy at Zebra One Gallery in Hampstead, London and Gallery 618 in Street Louis, Missouri.
Her work has appeared at the Affordable Art Fair in London 2009, Brussels 2010 and Paris 2010, London 2012. She was sponsored by the Arts Council for her show at The Future Gallery off Charing Cross Road in January 2010. She designed a wallpaper collection, which is archived at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and was in a touring exhibition with the Whitworth Gallery from 2010-2012.
They have one daughter.
Emanating from street arts scenes such as the Blitz Kids that were cropping up in London in the early 1980s, Haysi"s music combined reggae, country and electro with political and sociological lyrics couched as nursery rhymes. Her work has appeared in the American and British versions of Vogue and Harper"s Bazaar as well as West magazine, Interview, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, Vanity Fair, Elle and The Sunday Times.