DOGS by

Agnetha Sjögren

Mollbrinks will display a selection of sculptures made by the Swedish artist Agnetha Sjögren at London Art Fair 2025.

 

You'll find Mollbrinks and Agnetha in stand G12

AGNETHA SJÖGREN

I have a multi-disciplinary, 25-year background as an Artist, in Window Display, Interior Design and Prop-making. This varied career means I mould art and design, with craftsmanship the focus of my creative ideas. I started making dog sculptures because I got tired of people telling me that their dog was nice…I was afraid of dogs and wanted to show what a really nice dog is.

Carton

Mixed media and marble composite

46x53x17 cm, 12 kg

Fred

Mixed media and marble composite

46x53x17 cm, 12 kg

Agnetha Sjögren

Born in Sweden but based in London, I have developed a very personal body of work that embodies my love and experience of world travel, which also offers a glimpse into memories of my childhood, words and symbols – all brought together with a humorous twist.

 

Dogs are my chosen three-dimensional canvas on which to explore ideas and emotions. I make art in whatever medium and dimension I feel will get the message across. The communication between work and viewer is intended to be direct, however I like the interaction that a sculpture forces. The observer must move to see the full sculpture. I like to hide messages, which could be in the form of a word, or a symbol that you would miss if you didn’t see the whole piece.

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I have almost forgotten that they’re dogs. To me, they become a three dimensional canvas that I appropriate in the way another artist would use a flat surface, and use as a means to tell my stories.

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I approach material in a playful way to send contradicting messages, as in my latest work, a series called ‘Now you see me, Now you don’t’ where one of the pieces is a dog inside what appears to be a cardboard box, in solid Bronze. I love the reaction of the viewer when they touch the box and realise it is not cardboard.

 

My audience knows me as the Swedish Dog Artist, so whether I show a small part of a dog or the whole dog, people know it is my piece. My new work also embodies my desire to make physically bigger pieces, work more collaboratively and to create public art.

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The most common type of wrapping are vintage comic books, so we see dogs covered in panels from Tintin, Batman, Modesty Blaise and The Phantom. Others are dressed up as Prada handbags, sprinkled with gold dust, wrapped in designer fabrics, embossed with Union Jacks or dressed in intricate patterned leather to give the effect of chocolate. It's refreshing upbeat stuff and I found it next to impossible to keep a smile from my face as I moved from dog to dog, each one teaching, me a little more about the artist.

LONDON CITY NIGHTS

Marsipan

Chrome on Bronze, unique

33x26x13 cm, 4.5kg

Spotty

Chrome on Bronze, unique

33x26x13 cm, 4.5kg

Blind Love

Bronze

 27x26x10 cm, 4kg

Marsipan

Chrome on Bronze, unique

33x26x13 cm, 4.5kg

Doggybag

Both dog and bag in bronze

42x45x16 cm, 10kg

Prada

Bronze

42x45x16 cm, 10kg

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