Andrzej Zielinski’s sculptures are composites of a dazzling range of materials including bronze, agate, opal, perspex and wood. Through textural contrasts, sculptural ingenuity and riotous painted colour, Zielinski invests vitality into these inert substances. His sculptures are quite unlike the ubiquitous electronic devices they represent – mobile phones, printers, laptops and shredders. With sardonic titles such as Cluster Analysingand Secure Encryption, Zielinski asks questions about the central role of technology in our lives. As Eleanor Zeichner suggests in the October issue of Art Almanac: ‘his work makes the case for a pause in progress, in favour of a version of the world more idiosyncratic than innovative, more fantastical than functional.’

After training at the School of Art Institute of Chicago with a major in painting, Zielinski went on to complete
a Masters of Fine Arts at Yale University. He exhibits regularly across the United States as well as in Europe,Japan and Australia. In 2015 the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City staged his first surveyexhibition, Open Sourced, with an accompanying monograph and essay by art critic for The Nation Barry Schwabsky. His work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia; Canberra Museum and Gallery; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas and the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Missouri.

Zielinski lives in Canberra and is a lecturer at the Australian National University (ANU) School of Art, Canberra.