Dido was born in Bath in 1969. She studied at Goldsmiths from 2003-6 and the Royal College of Art from 2010-13. She was in New Contemporaries in 2006 and came 3rd in the Welsh Portrait Prize in 2007. She won the Neville Burston Painting Prize in 2006. Her work is in the private collections of John Moores family, Goldsmiths College and the RCA.