Bjork - Floating Bjork

Kate Garner

Kate Garner first came widely into the public eye as one-third of the 1980s avant-garde, new wave pop project Haysi Fantayzee. Emanating from street art scenes Haysi’s music combined reggae, country and electro with political and sociological lyrics couched as nursery rhymes.

After pop stardom fizzled, Garner 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.

" I remember being backstage in 2013 as Saint Iggy Pop was carried into his dressing room because he was in so much agony after a performance, that had transported the staid South Bank audience to a place they needed to go. Again, I had five minutes to photograph him. He was so humble and sweet-hearted; he asked me if I wanted him to put more clothes on. "No...take more off!" I answered."