Fine Art

Reef Elliott

Art installation with mannequin legs, a wheelbarrow, and construction materials on scaffolding in a room with a large window.

'Please forgive us while we undergo transformation' 2025, Sculpture

My biographically responsive artworks question the supposedly inherent masculine inability to convey emotion. My work intervenes in this assumption, asking whether a physical failure to encompass an emotion is the more profound alternative, because it allows the attempted communication of feeling to be seen as an outcome. 


I work with emotionally complex events from my own life. Using symbolic objects and performance, I draw out and amalgamate opposing connotations related to my gender, sexual or atypical identities. These materials are then taken and pushed against their innate limitations resulting in brutal, ambiguous “failures” of representation and expression. My work is often presented in installations which layer assemblage, sculpture, video and live performance, allowing the audience to witness or embrace sometimes taboo experiences that have intensified before being forced through an artistic release.

Art installation with a chair made of pipes, clothing, and a wheel, placed on a mat. A monitor displays a related video on a pedestal nearby.
Person in a high-visibility jacket carrying a disassembled mannequin and other items in an indoor setting with wooden flooring.
A wheelbarrow draped in a bright pink blanket is balanced upside down on a brick ledge against a brick wall.
A dancer performs under red lighting, casting a dramatic shadow on a screen beside them.
‘Hager, Kerensa’, 2025, Sculpture + Live Performance ‘Hager, Kerensa’, 2025, Sculpture + Live Performance ‘A Cemented Cocoon’ 2024, Sculpture ‘Explore the Red Light, Untitled Still’ 2022, Video Performance