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. Her practice is largely an exploration of colour, form and medium that could be categorised somewhere between abstract expressionism and the softness of impressionism. 

While Tate primarily paints, she also enjoys discovering bridges between disciplines such as drawing, design, textiles, illustration, photography, and poetry. As a prolific documenter and deep feeler, she's most often inspired and affected by experiences in nature, collecting them as mental, emotional and physical photographs. These stored memories spark her curiosity and guide the process when back in the studio. Tate's process is intuitive and playful, with abstraction in varying degrees being the common outcome.

Themes of nature, home, light, and time often occur in her work, and through it she hopes to communicate and inspire joy, rest, slowness, playfulness, and reconnection. At the core of Tate's practice, you’ll find her faith, vulnerability, and a love for storytelling.