Born in Cape Town in 1991, Gitte graduated with a BAFA degree from the University of Cape Town's Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2015. Her practice is multidisciplinary, including painting, drawing, digital media, various forms of outsourced fabrication, as well as home-made crafts. Icons and motifs recur across a body of work, continually respawning in basements, dungeons and dead-ends, their initial unease (as simple vessels for complicated feelings) slowly becoming mythic comfort through repetition (Messina, 2023).