I began my search by googling some terms like “kinetic sculpture”, “bio inspired”, “soft sculpture”, and “moving art”.
I saw an article about a kinetic sculpture to mimic the movement of a sea turtle.
Even though it wasn’t a “soft” sculpture, it created life like motion. I scrolled to the bottom of the article and found some more articles on works by the same artist.
I realized that this website, “Colassal”, was a online Art/Design platform. It seemed liked a great place to look for artwork that is more curated than a simple google search. I searched “soft sculpture” on cololssal and found a few more interesting works.
From there, I saw an article on exhibitions and found “Materials Hard + Soft Contemporary Craft Competition”
I looked for a gallery of past work, and here’s one of my favorites