Dayna-Gay Tate

Born in Zimbabwe in 1994, Dayna-Gay Tate is an artist and photographer based in Cape Town, South Africa, working with a range of mixed media. Painting was always a significant part of her childhood and upbringing, until she took a break from it while attaining a BA in Visual Communication Design at Stellenbosch University (2014 – 2017). This period brought a rich shift in Dayna-Gay’s creative thinking and, upon returning to painting in 2018, hugely impacted the way she explored composition, colour and form. Along with reviving her painting practice, she continued to work as a graphic designer, while also running a photography business and teaching watercolour workshops for 5+ years. Dayna-Gay has participated in various local group exhibitions and in 2023 hosted her first independent solo exhibition, ‘Drenched in Eden’, in Cape Town. Following the success of this show, she made the decision to step into full-time painting and now practices from her studio in the industrial suburb of Paarden Eiland.