Danae Stratou was born in Athens in 1964. In the 1980s she studied sculpture at Central St. Martins College of Aand Design, London Institute.
In 1997, Stratou, as part of the collaborative three woman group D.A.ST. Arteam, including industrial designer Alexandra Stratou and architect, Stella Konstantinidis, created a land art project, Desert Breath in the eastern Sahara Desert in El Gouna, Egypt. This work of vast magnitude, approximately 100,000 square metres, developed over three years.
emanates out and around a circular water-filled woman-made lake, thirty meters in diameter. Stratou created two interlocking spirals, one by excavating approximately seventy conical holes and utilising the
