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 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, Scuola di Grafica di Venezia Italy and at UK organisations including Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Firstsite 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 Letterform Archive San Francisco. In 2022 she was awarded a creative development grant from Arts Council England for a research project that explores the intersection of sculpture and the printed or written word. She lives and works in Norwich, UK.

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