Andrea La Valleur-Purvis

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 five, her work was included in an exhibition at the Mathildenhöhe — one of her first encounters with art as something that could carry real weight in the world. 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. A period of solo world travel and five years living in Barcelona deepened her understanding of identity as something made and remade across place and time. That understanding lives in her sculptures.

La Valleur-Purvis launched her sculpture practice in Waco, Texas in 2022. Her first public installations for the City of Waco followed in 2023. 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 — pedestal-scale to large outdoor — 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.