Kate Garner is an English photographer, fine artist and singer. Born in Wigan, Lancashire to Anne Philomena Shannon and George Sandeman Garner, a sailor and factory worker, Garner was expelled from high school at the age of 16 and became a runaway who joined 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 as a traveller before being located by her parents. 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-D. Garner first came widely into the public eye as one third of the 1980s avant-garde, new wave pop project Haysi Fantayzee, along with other members Jeremy Healy and Paul Caplin. 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. 

July 9th, 1954 in Wigan (Age 70)