 After establishing herself as a graphic artist and watercolourist in the 1920s, Mahood joined the Victorian Artists Society and exhibited regularly.During the Second World War she also exhibited with the Melbourne Social Realism group, which included Noel Counihan, Josl Bergner, Victor O'Connor, Peter Benjamin Graham, Herbert McClintock, Frank Andrew, and Nutta Buzzacott.In 1926 she became one of the first women in Australia to broadcast her own radio program, presenting a popular weekly discussion of art and decoration on 3LO until 1929.