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.

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.

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.

These include: 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.

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

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.

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

Later, from 1980, as head of time-based media at the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, Holland, she enthusiastically organised international seminars and exhibitions.

Her work in association with Madelon Hooykaas will be remembered as of profound importance in the developing European video art scene".