Michael Elliott

Michael Elliott is typically known as a fine art painter, who nurtures his craft in the style of photorealism. Born in Manchester, Jamaica Michael had always been experimenting with different mediums and techniques in art through his early years. Realism became his preferred style during his tenure at the Edna Manley College of the Visual Arts and while attending, Michael developed a keen interest in photography to the extent that it also became an assisted medium in developing the look and feel of his paintings. Michael Elliot’s artwork “Seeds of the Last Tide (Clotilda)” from the DVCAI exhibition, “Depth of Identity: Art as Memory and Archive,” was recently acquired by the Smithsonian, Caribbean, and Global South Archives. The artist’s participation in Windrush Portraits, Public Art Exhibition for Black History Month by John Hansard Gallery London, and Kingston Creative. Elliott is a co-founder of the DVCAI Photo Collective, an ongoing participating artist with DVCAI, a winner of multiple DVCAI Catalyst Awards, and a participant in multiple exhibitions and Cultural Exchanges in the Caribbean.