Irena Sedlecká (7 September 1928 – 4 August 2020) was a Czech sculptor and Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. Sedlecká was born in Plzeň, Czechoslovakia. After training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, she was awarded the Lenin Prize for sculpture before fleeing the communist regime in 1967. She visited Chile where a sympathetic socialist government led by Salvador Allende was in power. She was married several times, lastly to the sculptor Franta Belsky, who died in 2000. Sedlecká died in London on 4 August 2020, aged 91.