A metal Kinetic sculpture by Marek Jeczalik. A polished aluminium dolls head with glass eyes rests on its side in the sun (part of an automaton).

Norwich-based multimedia artist Marek Jeczalik has had an obsession with learning how things work since early childhood. He utilises his knowledge gleaned from then until the present day to bring his ideas and passions to life. His outputs are very wide-ranging, from micro sculptures and automatons, to paintings and short films.

A metal sculpture by Marek Jeczalik. A large section of Aircraft hangs on the wall with tools.

His works centre around the themes of childhood, nostalgia and memories, explored through any number of lenses. The pieces are specially designed to make the audience connect or reflect upon their own past, or the pasts of ancestors or even of those in the future.

His abstract works ask the viewer to glean their own personal recollections/connections by resonating with a specific element within each piece. Marek believes his most successful artworks leave the viewer with a sense of delight, whether this stems simply from the humour of a work, intrigue as to how an effect is achieved, or the happiness gained from the awakening of a dormant memory.

Winner of the Norfolk Contemporary Art Society Prize for New Makers 2023 and the Vernon Crowther Prize for Fine Art 2023.

A metal sculpture by Marek Jeczalik. A small Bronze disc with a polished upper, depicts the words 'Heaven Stole'