Peter von Tiesenhausen is a settler artist based in rural Treaty 8 territory, in the community of Demmitt, AB. von Tiesenhausen's long-standing multidisciplinary practice staunchly eludes categorization; land art, community-building, steel sculpture, environmental activism, bronze-casting, and wild blueberry propagation equally contribute to a complex synergy: a life lived as art.
Emerging in resonance with the natural cycles of the land he stewards and lives on, von Tiesenhausen's work contains an elemental urgency—a capacity to demonstrate momentary, precise unities between celestial mechanics and rural common-sense: states in which every droplet of water reflects the sun.
Peter von Tiesenahusen's Commissioned work in Edmonton :
- 'Things I Knew To Be True' unveiled at the renovated Stanley A. Milner library in 2020.
- 'Drawn by Desire' commissioned by Simons Londonderry Store unveiled in August 2017.
Peter von Tiesenhausen accepted the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Medal for significant contributions to the province in January 2023.