[3] Eliot was an early collaborator with Eddie Izzard at Covent Garden as a busker, he then moved to Brighton in the late 1980s where he promoted a number of nights at the ZAP club, including Fundamental[4] and Pow Wow.
He returned to Cornwall in the mid-1990s and in 2002 founded the Port Eliot Literature Festival, an annual event held in the grounds of the house.
Shortly before his death, Eliot had been awarded an Artist Fellowship in Creative Technology by Hewlett-Packard and was exploring invisible sculpture and 3D soundscapes.
[6] He also began to develop strategies to ensure Port Eliot would continue to be a vibrant cultural laboratory, building on the legend of the Elephant Fayre and helping define the ethos of the Port Eliot Literary Festival,[7] through conversations with friends such as Tom Hodgkinson of the Idler magazine.
His passion for the arts saw him also involved with the A Foundation,[8] through his Literati project and i-DAT with the A Conversation at Port Eliot in 2006.