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Elsa Stansfield was born on 12 March, 1945 in Glasgow, Scotland, is a British-Dutch visual artist (1945–2004). Discover Elsa Stansfield's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 59 years old?

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Age 59 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 12 March 1945
Birthday 12 March
Birthplace Glasgow, Scotland
Date of death 30 November, 2004
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1945

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.

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

After what could be called a difficult start to life, a harmony was found in the home of a Glasgow family, the Stansfields.

1962

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.

At 16 she was awarded a place as a full-time student in the Glasgow School of Art (1962-1965).

After 3 years of study in drawing and painting, she decided to specialise in photography and film.

1965

With the help of a grant, she moved to London, where she continued her studies at the Ealing School of Photography (1965-1967).

In this college she made her first film, an interpretation on the Aesop's Fable The Ant and the Grasshopper, a 15 min. colour and monochrome experimental film of the Fable in today's city.

1967

Advised by Peter Montagnon (then Head of BBC Open University) and with the support of Professor Thorold Dickinson, Stansfield studied film at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, from 1967 to 1969.

In the last year of college she worked as assistant in film production and editing.

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

cinema in Drury Lane London, the first experimental laboratory for film and theatre in England.

At the age of 24, Stansfield worked as producer for an American backed film ‘Journey to the East’, spending 3 months in India setting the production and later co-ordinating it back to London.

1970

On returning to London (1970) she established the ‘Eight, Nine and Ten’ Studio with the film director and editor Patricia Holland, and Electrophon Music with Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson.

The Studio meant to be a place for film editing with post-production facilities.

This project involved the gradual conversion of a Covent Garden warehouse at 8, 9 and 10 Neal's Yard.

In this studio some of Stansfield's works were produced.

These include:

1972

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.

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

1973

Their first movie, ‘Een van die dagen’ (One of Those Days) was broadcast by Dutch public TV in 1973.

It was also shown at festivals in London, Toronto and New York.

1975

After that followed ‘Overbruggen’ (About Bridges) (1975), which was shown in several festivals including Cork, Rotterdam, and Grenoble.

Under the name Stansfield/Hooykaas they made their first video installations from 1975 onwards including ‘What’s It to You?’ (1975), Journeys (1976), Just Like That (1977) and ‘Split Seconds’ (1979).

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

1978

In 1978 she was awarded the first video Bursary of the Arts Council of Britain at Maidstone College of Art, Kent, which was established by David Hall, ‘the Godfather of British video art’.

1980

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

This was the first media department in a postgraduate academy in the Netherlands.

She also started to build a video collection for the Academy.

For this reason she moved from London to Maastricht, in the South of the Netherlands.

International participants included David Garcia, Annie Wright, Paul Landon en Roos Theuws.

1981

She organized several seminal symposiums including ‘Video Maart’ (1981), and the symposium for the exhibition ‘The Luminous Image’ (1984), which included videotapes and installations by Marina Abramović and Ulay, Vito Acconci, Max Almy, Dara Birnbaum, Michel Cardena, Brian Eno, Kees de Groot, Nan Hoover, Michael Klier, Shigeko Kubota, Thierry Kuntzel, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Mary Lucier, Marcel Odenbach, Tony Oursler, Nam June Paik, Al Robbins, Lydia Shouten, Elsa Stanfield and Madelon Hooykaas, Francesc Torres, Bill Viola, and Robert Wilson, in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

1986

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

Stansfield and Hooykaas’ work deals with the relation between nature and spirituality and explores scientific principles and natural forces such as radio waves and magnetic fields.

They make use of contemporary technology such as film, audio and video in combination with organic materials such as sand, glass and copper.

In their work they show that everything that exists is animated by movement and change.

2004

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