Garner Bowie Double Profile

In *Garner Bowie Double Profile*, Kate distils the iconography of modern celebrity into a poised, double-faced portrait that reads as both homage and critique. Using a precise, graphic approach—crisp contouring, controlled tonal shifts, and a carefully balanced symmetry—the artist constructs a visual dialogue between public persona and private self.

The doubled profile operates like a contemporary diptych, evoking Pop and post-Pop strategies while updating them for an image-saturated culture shaped by fashion photography, music, and screen memory. Kate’s technique foregrounds surface and signal: edges sharpen, features echo, and identity becomes a designed object.

The work is culturally resonant, reflecting how fame is manufactured, replicated, and consumed.

Kate 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.

KATE GARNER AND HAYSI FANTAYZEE

Kate Garner first came widely into the public eye as one-third of the 1980s avant-garde,…