Alida Kuzemczak-Sayer is a visual artist living and working in Norwich and Great Yarmouth, UK. She holds an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London (2014), and her work is included in The Anthony Shaw Collection at York Art Gallery UK, The Letterform Archive, San Francisco USA, and private collections in the UK, USA, Hong Kong and Japan. She has exhibited internationally and received public art commissions from the HERILIGION Project at University of East Anglia (2019) and The National Trust (2017). In 2022 she received a DYCP award from Arts Council England and her 2023 solo exhibition Word Parts at Standpoint Gallery London was supported by the Henry Moore Foundation. Her first monograph Alida Kuzemczak-Sayer: Word Parts was published by New North Press in 2023. Residencies include Standpoint London/New North Press (2022-23), Scuola di Grafica Venice (2016), Interviews South Korea (2015) and Scottish Sculpture Workshop (2015).
Alida Kuzemczak-Sayer’s sculptures explore the objecthood of records and communication, making accumulations of human experience tangible through glyphic forms. Drawing on materials and techniques pertaining to the written word—paper, print, ink, pigment, painting, binding—layers are repeatedly inscribed, deconstructed and re-formed into cellular yet singular volumes, often held taut by or draped over a punctuating support.
"Within my works, linguistic scores, fragments of voice, tactile encounters and hazy recollections proliferate and coalesce into charged moments of alignment and (il)legibility: the transformation of thought and process into artefact."
Alida Kuzemczak-Sayer is a visual artist living and working in Norwich and Great Yarmouth, UK. She holds an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London (2014), and her work is included in The Anthony Shaw Collection at York Art Gallery UK, The Letterform Archive, San Francisco USA, and private collections in the UK, USA, Hong Kong and Japan. She has exhibited internationally and received public art commissions from the HERILIGION Project at University of East Anglia (2019) and The National Trust (2017). In 2022 she received a DYCP award from Arts Council England and her 2023 solo exhibition Word Parts at Standpoint Gallery London was supported by the Henry Moore Foundation. Her first monograph Alida Kuzemczak-Sayer: Word Parts was published by New North Press in 2023. Residencies include Standpoint London/New North Press (2022-23), Scuola di Grafica Venice (2016), Interviews South Korea (2015) and Scottish Sculpture Workshop (2015).Alida Kuzemczak-Sayer’s sculptures explore the objecthood of records and communication, making accumulations of human experience tangible through glyphic forms. Drawing on materials and techniques pertaining to the written word—paper, print, ink, pigment, painting, binding—layers are repeatedly inscribed, deconstructed and re-formed into cellular yet singular volumes, often held taut by or draped over a punctuating support.
