Andrea La Valleur-Purvis is a British-American sculptor working in steel, with a practice that spans intimate pedestal-scale works to large public installations.
Born in Cambridge, England to a British father and American mother, La Valleur-Purvis grew up in central Germany, where European modernism, architecture, and the built landscape shaped her eye from an early age. At eighteen, she moved to the United States, where she studied sculpture at the College of Visual Arts in Saint Paul, Minnesota, earning a BFA in Sculpture in 1999.
Before returning to the studio full-time, she spent nearly two decades working across analog and digital creative environments with leading tech brands — years that sharpened her thinking about form, communication, and the relationship between structure and meaning.
In 2025, she was recognized with the Artistic Merit Award from the Luxembourg Art Prize and the Art 100 VAA International Prize, and her work has been featured in Glasstire, NPR Radio, and Cohart Magazine. Her sculptures are held in private, corporate, and public collections throughout Texas, with work exhibited at the Marfa Invitational and galleries across the state.
She lives and works in Waco, Texas.
Born in Cambridge, England to a British father and American mother, La Valleur-Purvis grew up in central Germany, where European modernism, architecture, and the built landscape shaped her eye from an early age. At eighteen, she moved to the United States, where she studied sculpture at the College of Visual Arts in Saint Paul, Minnesota, earning a BFA in Sculpture in 1999.
Before returning to the studio full-time, she spent nearly two decades working across analog and digital creative environments with leading tech brands — years that sharpened her thinking about form, communication, and the relationship between structure and meaning.
In 2025, she was recognized with the Artistic Merit Award from the Luxembourg Art Prize and the Art 100 VAA International Prize, and her work has been featured in Glasstire, NPR Radio, and Cohart Magazine. Her sculptures are held in private, corporate, and public collections throughout Texas, with work exhibited at the Marfa Invitational and galleries across the state.
She lives and works in Waco, Texas.