SHAPE OF NOW
Saatchi Art
Digital Exhibition

Collective show

A Survey of Contemporary Sculpture

Erin Remington and India Balyejusa

Where modernism pushed sculpture to its formal limits, contemporary sculpture asks what those forms can mean and carry. It is philosophical, symbolic, and reverent to its materials and to its canon. It borrows from constructivism and surrealism, abstraction and the organic world, then pushes past all of it. What exists now is plural, contradictory, and resolutely global.

Selected through Saatchi Art's first open call, Shape of Now pairs emerging voices with established sculptors across a range of scales, materials, and intentions. Our curators drew from hundreds of submissions to assemble a survey of the medium as it exists today.

Among the artists featured: Working in marble, alabaster, and limestone, Caroline Williams reclaims stone as a vital contemporary medium, but by shaping the material until its origins become almost unrecognizable. Sam Shendi, whose work walks between abstraction and representation, strips human nature down until what remains is pure expression. And Greg Chann, who constructs complex interwoven systems of material, scale, and color. What began as a meditation on global interconnection evolved into a visual language for the circuitry of life itself.

No single movement governs these works. Only the artists’ restless engagement with their medium’s past and future.