About
Alida Kuzemczak-Sayer’s practice explores a longstanding interest in systems of communication and the challenge of apprehending the intangible. Her sculptural pieces grow through an intuitive manipulation of materials–diaphanous papers, natural pigments,graphite,wax, raw cast metal–that are repeatedly deconstructed and re-formed into new volumes, typically resembling soft book or scroll-like forms.
Her work considers the duality of reading and writing and how the residue of these actions may accumulate or shift through material bodies, in which fragments of thought, glyphic marks, tactile encounters and hazy recollections prolifer ate and coalesce into charged moments of alignment and(il)legibility.Alida trained at The Royal College of Art (MA Sculpture, 2014) and at Glasgow School of Art(BA Hons Visual Communication, 2009).
She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at galleries and art fairs internationally and has undertaken residencies in South Korea,Scuoladi Grafica di Venezia Italy and at UK organisations including Scottish Sculpture Workshop,First site Colchester and Sainsbury Centre Norwich. Commissions include The National Trust,Norwich Cathedral and University of East Anglia/OUTPOST Gallery. Examples of her work are held in The Anthony Shaw Collection at York Art Gallery and Letter form Archive San Francisco. She has delivered lectures and artist talks to academic and public audiences including: The Royal College of Art, Glasgow School of Art, Norwich University of the Arts and Paju Typography Insitute (PaTI) South Korea. In 2022 she was awarded a creative development grant from Arts Council England for a research project at New North Press/Standpoint London that explores the intersection of sculpture and letterpress printing and will culminate in a solo exhibition at Standpoint Gallery in November 2023. Alida lives and works in Norwich, UK.
