Caught in the wind – Paul Cocksedge

Paul Cocksedge, a London-based designer, was commissioned to make this ‘caught in the wind’ sculpture for the city of Lyon’s annual Festival of Lights (ended 11 December 2011).

Traffic light tree – Pierre Vivant

It seems like there’s any excuse for festive cheer, and quite right.

hyperrealist sculpture – ron mueck

Woman With Sticks

I first came across Australian artist Ron Mueck back in 2006, when he was exhibiting in a huge solo show at Edinburgh’s National Galleries of Scotland.

suspended sculpture – clark goolsby

Clark Goolsby, At Rest, cast resin and string

Hands up who can’t get enough of this sculpture by New-York based artist Clark Goolsby?

mozart guerra – how long’s your piece of string?

Mozart Guerra, The Girl From Kyoto 2 (2010)

Brasilian-born, Paris-based sculptor Mozart Guerra creates these psychadelic, hyper-real sculpture busts from nylon rope and expansive Styrofoam.

pixel clouds and ping pong balls – daniel arsham

Daniel Arsham, Pixel Cloud (New York) (2010), plastic and paint, images courtesy of Galerie Perrotin, Paris

American artist Daniel Arsham took photos of clouds with his iPhone and blew them up until they were beautiful arrangements of multicoloured pixels.

music into form – jan henrik hansen

Jan Henrik Hansen, Air Force One Dance

The work of Swiss architect Jan Henrik Hansen is based on music, or more precisely, transforming music as an abstract idea into the tangible form of architecture or sculpture.

the poetry of sculpture, or sculpted poetry – jaume plensa

Jaume Plensa, Irma-Nuria (2010)

‘An artist must introduce beauty to people’s everyday lives – it’s our duty.’

New sculpture – the anti-heroic

The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture, the current exhibition at London’s Saatchi Gallery (until 16 October), not only promises to clarify the heterogeneous and indefinite nature of sculpture today in all its diverse and malleable forms, but to also prophesise as to its future.