10 Facts About Elsa Stansfield

Elsa Stansfield was a Scottish artist, known for her video art and installations.

Elsa Stansfield was born in Glasgow on 12 March 1945, and died in Amsterdam in 2004.

Elsa Alexandra Stansfield was born on 12 March 1945 in Glasgow of Canadian-Scottish and Swiss parentage.

Also during the same year Elsa Stansfield was curating film programmes and running the Arts Lab.

In 1972 Elsa Stansfield started an intensive collaboration in the field of film with the Dutch photographer and filmmaker Madelon Hooykaas in London and Amsterdam.

In 1975 Elsa Stansfield moved her studio from Covent Garden to Wapping in East London.

In 1980 Elsa Stansfield was asked to create a Time Based Media Department at the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht.

Elsa Stansfield started to build a video collection for the Academy.

In 1986 Elsa Stansfield moved to Amsterdam while she worked as a Professor at the Jan van Eyck Academy until 1991.

For thirty-two years Stansfield and Hooykaas worked together and produced over hundred and fifty works, until Elsa Stansfield died unexpectedly in 2004.