Alida Kuzemczak-Sayer
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BIOGRAPHY
Alida holds an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London. 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) and Scottish Sculpture Workshop (2015).Alida paints, draws and prints her gestural glyphic marks onto Japanese Kozo paper - made from the inner bark of mulberry trees - before tearing the sheets and constructing draped sculptures from the strips. Highly tactile and enigmatic, Alida's work recalls historic scrolls, the soft folds of handwritten letters and worn bindings of books. Her work represents the objecthood of records of communication - the transformation of human thought and connection into language and artefact. -
WORKS
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Alida Kuzemczak-SayerTail, 2023Letterpress prints on Japanese mulberry paper, wood, adhesive
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Alida Kuzemczak-SayerFace, 2023Letterpress prints on Japanese mulberry paper, wood, ink, adhesive
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Alida Kuzemczak-SayerShoulder, 2023Letterpress prints on Japanese mulberry paper, wood, paint, adhesive.
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Alida Kuzemczak-SayerSwell, 2023Graphite and crayon rubbings of letterpress type on Himalayan mulberry paper, linen thread, adhesive
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Alida Kuzemczak-SayerDark Swimmer II, 2023Japanese mulberry paper, ink, adhesive.
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Alida Kuzemczak-SayerDark Swimmer I, 2023Japanese mulberry paper, ink, adhesive, frame.
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Alida Kuzemczak-Sayer, Flecked Signature, Lineation, 2023
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Alida Kuzemczak-Sayer, Signature, Lineation², 2022
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Alida Kuzemczak-SayerStroke, 2023Graphite on Japanese gampi paper
Unframed
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Installation Shots
