Stuart Elliott

Stuart Elliott has contributed significantly to the visual arts in Western Australia for four decades, as a painter, sculptor, lecturer, curator and writer. In 2010, he was honoured with an Artsource Lifetime Achievement Award, in 2013 was selected as the third commissioned artist for The Syndicate, and in 2023 he is celebrated in a major survey show at Mundaring Arts Centre.

Stuart is an active exhibitor and educator, both locally and internationally, and works on various public, private, and corporate commissions. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture) gained in 1980, and his sculptures and paintings are held in prestigious collections around the world.

'The iconographic elements of Stuart Elliott’s work are applied across much of his oeuvre, particularly in the format of works and custom-built frames and special tables for the display of his work.

His treatment of the figure is a stand-out feature in that they are almost exclusively clad from head to toe in some form of PPE (personal protective equipment) – like icons for a place where humanity is constantly at risk from its own endeavours.

The people and desolate landscapes in his works anticipate the impending industrial wasteland that much better represent our Western Australian civilisation than the romantic remains of rural Australia celebrated in the mythology underpinning much Australian art.'
Dr Duncan McKay, 2022 (abridged)