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, inks, wax, raw cast metal – that are repeatedly deconstructed and re-formed into new volumes. 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 proliferate and coalesce into charged moments of alignment and (il)legibility.

Kuzemczak-Sayer trained in Sculpture at The Royal College of Art (2014) and in Design at Glasgow School of Art (2009). She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at galleries and art fairs internationally and has undertaken residencies in South Korea, Scuola di Grafica di Venezia Italy and at UK organisations including Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Firstsite Colchester and New North Press/Standpoint London. 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 Letterform Archive San Francisco. In 2022 she received a DYCP award from Arts Council England and in 2023 her solo exhibition Word Parts at Standpoint Gallery, London, was supported by the Henry Moore Foundation. 

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