She is best known for her work in paper and mixed-media monochrome and coloured collages, drawn from her sustained practice of collecting urban detritus.
Her use of collages and wall hangings in largely abstract compositions deploys domestic materials such as newspaper and tissue paper, as well as textiles and craft techniques.
[6] Collecting ephemera, discarded printed material and paper cuttings is also integral to Gower's critique of consumerism and waste.
Gower uses graphic design elements and repetition of cut out pictures of spectacles, shoes, tea-bag labels or stickers from fruit, to create decorative and optical effects, often on transparent paper.
Other works explore multiple images of fish, crabs and other crustaceans, fruit and vegetables, grasses, beetles, butterflies, flowers, insects, snakes and frogs.
[20] The Cuttings series culminated in a survey exhibition in 2018, Cuttings- Elizabeth Gower at the Geelong Art Gallery.
[30] Gower has also been commissioned to produce several public artworks such as banners, light boxes, facades, floor and wall murals.