The male/female dichotomy explored in Elaine's practice is informed by a contemporary Irish viewpoint. Using real life situations and tensions between men and women as a point of departure, her focus is on the domestic as a site of confinement. Enduring physical gestures are used as metaphors for transformative psychological positions and as passive aggressive assertions of power. Her work is a social comment on the traditional representation of woman as object and on contemporary society through a representation of power playing situations.

The use of the Still and Moving image and the Loop as a representation of an irresolvable state are important components in the works. The space that lies between the still and moving image represents a tension between possibility and non-action indicating a latent possibility. These ideas of impossibility are seen as integral to the notion of equality explored in Elaine's work. Cyclical competitive actions represent imbalances, repetition, failure and an acquisition of strength.  Elaine completed the MA in Visual Arts Practices in 2008.

Contributed to Curatorial Session: Reader—Inquiries into Curatorial Practice.