Elmo Hood

Born 1989 in Southampton, United Kingdom- Elmo Hood is a self taught contemporary artist specialising in collage and pop art styles. Elmo currently resides and works out of Brisbane, Australia.

Elmo’s work first came to notoriety in 2013 when he created a collage out of two playing cards. The piece was a viral hit and secured a number of international exhibitions along with a firm celebrity fan base. His first playing card pieces focused on portraying human emotion through the cards using a variety of methods to achieve this effect such as cutting and burning the materials.

His work is now best described as a fuse between pop art and mixed media. Elmo uses a variety of materials combined with different painting and collage techniques to build his compositions. With his playing card pieces Elmo uses the collaged cards for his colour pallet whilst sticking to darker tones for the outlines and shading.

Kings and Queens feature heavily in his work along with references to philosophy, the paranormal and religion.

Publications to date include British GQ, Forbes, Glamour Magazine, Wall Street International, Oddity mag, Sloane Square Magazine, Neon Magazine, The Daily Echo, Epsom Guardian and Made in Shoreditch Magazine
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self taught

Art beyond borders (Bahrain art fair)
The Allies - group exhibition (Imagination in Space, New York)
One in one out - solo exhibition (Walton fine arts, London )
Urban in Ibiza - group exhibition (Agroturismo hotel Ibiza)
Down the rabbit hole - solo exhibition (Westbank gallery, London)
House of cards - solo exhibition (Miami - Jason of BH)
ING Discerning eye - Selector (Mall Galleries - London)