Caleb Shea has been named as one of the exhibiting artists of the inaugural Melbourne Sculpture Biennale.

Caleb Shea’s idiosyncratic take on formalism situates him as a key figure in Australia’s ‘neo-modernist’ movement. Form, colour and phenomenology are central to Shea’s practice, where transcendental geometric abstraction and blunt simplicity meet in a revision of the late-modernist sculptural tradition. Known for his distinctive visual language, Shea’s contemporary approach offers an animated, sophisticated and playful flare to the discourse.

The single line form is a recurring motif that Shea continues to revisit in playful experimentations that contribute to conversations about sculpture as ‘drawing in space’. A sustained investigation into a select vocabulary of forms has defined Shea’s output in recent years, with current works challenging this language in relationship to human proportions, introducing a new monumentality in scale.