She has been nominated for and won numerous AACTA Awards in cinematography, including for Spear (2015), Seven Types of Ambiguity (2017), H Is for Happiness (2019), and Stateless (2020).
[2] In 2006 she obtained a Master of Arts in Film, Television, and Digital Media Cinematography AFTRS,[3] where she studied under female cinematographers Jan Kenny and Erika Addis.
[2] Drowning had its Australian premiere at the Flickerfest International Short Film Festival in December 2009 at Bondi Beach in Sydney.
[10] She worked on the ABC TV drama series Fires, which aired in late 2021, and the documentaries Freeman and Step into Paradise.
She also greatly admires the work of Harris Savides, who collaborated with filmmaker Gus Van Sant.
[8] In 2018, renowned film critic David Stratton praised Elliott's "attractive photography" in his review of Undertow in The Australian.