Prominent Croatian contemporary sculptor Šime Vulas graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1958 in the class of Vanje Radauš, where he also taught in 1987. He was an associate of the V. Radauš Master Workshop (1958–62). Regular member of HAZU since 1991.

At the beginning of the 1960s, he mainly shaped vertical, lyrically intoned, harmonic abstract compositions in wood. After that, he multiplies different forms, turning the surfaces into carefully arranged masses, harmonious and monumental, regardless of their size. He reinterpreted traditional motifs and reminiscences of the homeland through innovative methods of descriptive reduction, fragmentation and rearrangement of parts into rhythmically broken down compositions in the form of sail totems. Most often, these are motifs of sails and its derivatives such as ships, masts, candles, cities, organs, portals and forts. He primarily performs sculptures in wood, which enabled him to have a morphology close to his sensibility.