Stanfield, Elsa

Elsa Stansfield was born in 1945 in Glasgow. From 1962-1965 she studied at Glasgow School of Art. Stansfield then went on to study photography and film at Ealing School of Art & Design, London and Film studies at the Slade, University College London. In 1980 the artist moved to The Netherlands where she became head of the department Time Based Media at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht until 1991.

Madelon Hooykaas and Elsa Stansfield worked together from 1972 until the year of Stansfield’s death in 2004, the artists were based in Amsterdam and London during their collaborative years. In 1975 the artists began collaboratively making video-environments, from 1980 to the early 1990Ìs Hooykaas and Stansfield were producing videotapes, video-installations, video-sculptures and sound sculptures and in the last decade of their collaborative practice they realized interactive installations and outdoor sculptural works.

In 1996 Stansfield and Hooykaas were awarded the Judith Leyster Oeuvreprize for their body of work, and in 1999 the their CDROM ‘Person to Person’ was awarded the Grand Prix for New Media at the Split Film Festival.

  • Videography:

    1975 What’s It to You?

    1975 Moving

    1976 Journeys

    1976 The Road

    1977 Just Like That

    1977 Generations

    1977 Horizontal Flow I

    1977 Horizontal Flow II

    1977 Memory Window I

    1977 Memory Window II

    1978 Continuing Lines I

    1978 Continuing Lines II

    1978 Labyrinth of Lines I

    1978 Labyrinth of Lines II

    1978 Moving Lines

    1978 Sea of Light

    1978 See Through Lines

    1978 Videoveranderingen / Video Changes

    1978 Videovijver / Video Pond

    1979 Audeo Video I

    1979 Audeo Video II

    1979 Running Time I

    1979 Running Time II

    1979 Split Seconds I

    1979 Split Seconds II

    1979 Tidal Flow I

    1979 Tidal Flow II

    1979 Transitions,

    1980 Eye Level

    1980 Time Piece

    1980 Video Void I

    1980 Video Void II

    1980 Void

    1981 2 Sides of a Story I

    1981 2 Sides of a Story II

    1981 A Piece for the 4 Wind

    1981 Cutting Piece, 1981

    1982 Continuing Story

    1982 Flying Time I

    1982 Flying Time II

    1982 Magnetic North

    1982 Video Performance

    1982 Wind Direction site n°6

    1982 Wind Direction site n°7

    1982 Wind Direction site n°8

    1982 Wind Sound, site n°9

    1982/2003 Outside / Inside

    1983 Following Directions

    1983 Out of Reach I

    1983 Out of Reach II

    1983 Vi Deo

    1983 Wind Installation

    1984 Compass

    1984 The Force Behind its Movement

    1985 … From the Museum of Memory I

    1985 Stein und Wasser / Stone and Water, including Song for a Stone

    1985 Video Volente

    1986 Shadow Pictures…from the Museum of Memory II

    1986 Point of Orientation…from the Museum of Memory III

    1986 Point of Orientation

    1986 From the museum of Memory IV

    1987 Boat Piece…from the Museum of Memory VI

    1987 Dialoog / Dialogue

    1987 Phosphor…from the Museum of Memory V

    1987 Point in Time

    1987 Landscape

    1988 A Personal Observatory

    1988 Compass 4 Studies

    1988 From the Museum of Memory VII

    1988 Point in Time I

    1988 Radiant

    1989 Observatory I, II, III, IV

    1989 Solstice

    1990 Offerings

    1990 Point of Reference I

    1990 Point of Reference II

    More detailed information can be found here:

    http://www.stansfield-hooykaas.net/text/bio.html

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