Elsa Stansfield

Elsa Stansfield (1945 – 2004) was a Scottish artist, known for her video art and installations. She was born in Glasgow on 12 March 1945, and died in Amsterdam in 2004.

From 1962-1965 Stansfield studied at the Glasgow School of Art. After that she studied photography and film at the Ealing School of Art & Design in London and Film studies at the Slade, University College London. In 1980 the artist moved to The Netherlands where she became head of the Time Based Media Department at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht until 1991.

In 1972 the artist started to collaborate with Madelon Hooykaas with whom, over the course of thirty years, until Stansfield’s death, she made videotapes, video-installations, video-sculptures, sound sculptures and interactive installations and outdoor sculptural works.