Alex Tedlie-Stursberg (b.1980 UK) is known for his sculptures and installations, which utilize found objects and natural materials scavenged from the shoreline and urban landscape. His material approach is inherent to a West Coast counterculture vernacular, while also referencing the European aesthetic traditions of Dada, CoBrA, Nouveau Réalisme and Arte Povera. Stursberg’s bricolage sculptures, tableaus and assemblages incorporate materials such as stones, coins and bottle caps as a means to explore time, the value of materials and the ever-shifting meaning of objects. Degraded styrofoam, salvaged from tire flotsams washed ashore are transformed into gleaming bronze monuments to a modern existence marked by our debris. Bisected basalt or granite stones reveal glittering automotive paint, reflective of muscle cars and American guitars, associated with Southern California during the 1960s. Stursberg’s usage of detritus is subject to a material alchemy — from trash to brass, the mundane to the mythological, transforming our expectations of and relationship to discarded materials.

Alex Tedlie-Stursberg is a Vancouver-based artist whose practice centres on sculpture and installation. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent exhibitions at The Polygon Gallery (North Vancouver, BC), Burnaby Art Gallery (Burnaby, BC), Richmond Art Gallery (Richmond, BC), Trapp Projects (Vancouver, BC), The Chan Family Collection (Vancouver, BC), Plumb (Toronto, ON), Audain Art Museum (Whistler, BC), Griffin Art Projects (North Vancouver, BC), and Monte Clark Gallery (Vancouver, BC).In 2024, Stursberg was an artist-in-residence at BoxoPROJECTS (Joshua Tree, CA). In March 2025, he presented his second solo exhibition, One Thousand Years, with Monte Clark Gallery. Later that year, he produced a collaborative body of work with Haven (Vancouver, BC). In 2026, he will undertake a residency at the Similkameen Artist Residency (Keremeos, BC) and present new work with Monte Clark Gallery and Livingspace (Vancouver, BC). He is also currently developing Drift/Currents, a public artwork commissioned through Ballard Fine Art that will be unveiled in Vancouver in 2027.Alongside his studio practice, Stursberg works as a sessional visual arts instructor and is co-director of BIG TOP, a free pop-up art school serving residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and marginalized artists.