[2] Elsa Dax was born in Paris, and educated at the Sorbonne where she gained an MA in cinema, Russian art studies, Constructivism and Suprematism.

In 1996 she was a television production assistant at the Musée d'Orsay for the film Whistler, an American in Paris, directed by Edwige Kertes.

[2] In 1997, she was a production cinema assistant at the Ciné Lumière, French Institute, South Kensington, London, and the following year a television encoder and editor for Xtreme Information Ltd.[2] From 1997 to 1998, she rented a 3 sq metre room in a convent, containing just a bed, a small cupboard and a tap.

[2] In 2000, she joined the Stuckists, the anti-conceptual art movement co-founded by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson.

In 2004, she was one of the fourteen "founder and featured" artists in The Stuckists Punk Victorian held at the Walker Art Gallery for the Liverpool Biennial.

[6] Dax said that she chose her themes of myths, legends and fairytales as "I find reality terribly sad and cruel.

When I painted Venus I felt quite happy and relaxed; Mars made me feel like Churchill – the warrior, the struggle.