Versatile artist, designer, sculptor and teacher, born in Bewdley, Worcestershire. She did a foundation course at Stourbridge College of Art & Design, 1965–6; gained a first-class honours degree in sculpture from Birmingham College of Art, 1966–9; did a postgraduate master’s degree (higher diploma in sculpture) at Chelsea School of Art, 1969–70; then gained a British Council/French government scholarship to École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1970–1. Garrard won a number of international awards and residencies, including The South London Gallery, 1994, where for her show Arenas for Conversation she based works of art on in conversation with people who visited her. Garrard had numerous mixed and solo shows, the latter including Talisman, Louise Hallett Gallery, 1988; Calgary Conversation, New Art Gallery, Calgary, 1991; and Disclosing Dialogues, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, 1992.