Born in 1971 in the Eastern Cape, Garrett has a BFA from Rhodes University and an MAFA cum laude from the University of Natal, which featured a thesis about the work of Nesta Nala.

His pots, with their strong utilitarian elegance, are finely crafted, smoke-fired earthenware, inspired by the traditional rural pottery of KwaZulu. Wide and narrow necked jars and open bowls shapes reflect the forms and surfaces of ancient and contemporary hand-building traditions. Coils of grogged terracotta clay are built up, scraped and pinched into shape. After being burnished with agate pebbles, designs are incised with mussel shells or quills. Once dry the vessels are either pit-fired with wood, dung and dried aloe leaves, or biscuit-fired to about 900 degrees in an electric or gas kiln and then carbonised with smoke.

Among his awards: Vita Craft Award, APSA Regional Winner.

Collections: Durban Art Gallery, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg and King George V Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth.