Peter Von Tiesenhausen
2002                                         (PRINTS)

Peter von Tiesenhausen has experienced the land around his home for 40 of his 46 years. His travels have taken him to 6 continents and he has worked and lived in the far north and the far south. He attended the Alberta College of Art in 1979 and 1981 and has been a full time practicing visual artist since 1990. He has exhibited and lectured widely across Canada as well as in Europe and the United States. He has
had over 35 solo and many group exhibitions over the last 15 years. The land in which he lives constitutes his primary and ongoing artwork and in 1995 he claimed copyright over that land. He has been successful on several occasions defending this artwork against the incursions of other corporate interests. His work has been widely reviewed and the subject of 2 national television documentaries including a one hour award winning film "Elemental" produced in 2000 for "Adrienne Clarkson Presents".

His practice includes painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, event, video and on occasion, performance.
Peter Von Tiesenhausen completed a suite of prints entitled "Ether", during his week-long visit. The completed suite, included individual portfolio boxes, with screened title page, collaphon and seven relief rolled photo etchings, printed on aluminum foil and chine colled to Black Rives BFK paper.

Peter has exhibited and lectured widely across Canada as well as in Europe, the United States and Mexico.  He has had over 50 solo and many group exhibitions, which have been widely reviewed and the subject of 3 national television documentaries including a one hour award winning film “Elemental” produced in 2000 for “Adrienne Clarkson Presents”.

His multidisciplinary practice includes painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, installation, event, video and performance. His work often involves the community in which he is working and utilizes the materials to be found there. He has created several permanent and ephemeral public artworks throughout North America and in Europe and has works in many public and private collections.

The land where he lives constitutes his primary and ongoing artwork and in 1995 he claimed copyright over that land.  He has been successful on several occasions defending this artwork against the incursions of multinational corporate interests.

Recently he was a driving force for the construction of a sustainable timber frame straw bale community centre in his community of Demmitt, Alberta.

In the words of Clint Roenisch of Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto:“Peter is a sculptor, painter, video and installation artist. Peter von Tiesenhausen’s projects evoke the majesty and violent perfection of the natural world and it’s rhythms. He is interested in investing contemporary existence with a more profound connection to the radiant of nature in a manner that is neither pure ecology nor distanced irony.”

 with assistance from printmaking students Jason Clark, Kaya Wielopolski, Ryan Lindburg, Karen Maxwell, Kristel Jones and Peter Whittenberg.