PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
The work is called ”Yearlings”, young horses about to become adults, as are the kids and teenagers who will inhabit the school, and they are just as energetic, playful and inventive.
The work ties the room together, making a whole of a motley place that actually consists of two corridors with several doors and a sitting area behind the stairs. The vibrant colors hopefully inspires and make the place a bit magical and imaginative. The mirror mosaics hang at a child-friendly height, but it takes some skill and patience to be able to reflect oneself in them. I wish that the children of the Fredriksborg school can have an experience
of belonging and pride in their school.
For my assignment for the Fredriksborg elementary school in Borås, I wanted to make a large and comprehensive design with many different elements and generously with color. The work runs across three walls from ceiling to floor and consists of various pieces and reliefs mounted on painted walls, like large puzzle pieces. The school's surroundings gave the idea for the design. Horses and birds in oil on canvas on shaped panels, carved and milled landscape reliefs and monochrome puzzle pieces together form a not only visual, but also tactile experience. The mirror mosaics reflect the light when you move. The colors come in variants of orange, green and pink. The cliff and the steep slope in the forest behind the school gave the idea to the different height lines on the pillars and walls.
Photographs by Hendrik Zeitler © 2024
THE ANGEL, THE VIRGIN & THE UNICORN
Kyrkskolan & Kyrkbyns förskola, Tierps Kyrkby 2023
oil on shaped canvas, mirror mosaics, papier-maché, wood, glass mdf, wall paint
Inspired by a medieval painting in the nearby 13th century church, three walls in the new built school represent different characters from this painting. A bit more modern but with a certain drama: cardboard wings are hanging from a folding screen with a grotto painted on. A narwhal’s tooth hanging in a glass cabinet. The zodiac sign of the unicorn in mirror mosaic. A red dress hanging from another folding screen. Broccoli trees, stars and dogs. A work for storytelling and imagination.
Fjällkrumelurer
My first outdoor work, looking like giant play-doo. Mounted on two wooden walls for a new build preschool in Rannebergen, north of Gothenburg . The sculptures are made in styrofoam and jesmonite with a coating of polyurea and painted with polyurethane paint.
Commissioned by Lokalförvaltning Gothenburg and installed in 2016
Systema Naturae
A number of paintings in the new build Södra Älvsborg Hospital in Borås from 2009 and 2010. In the paintings a variety of animals and plants - some local, some exotic, put together in large colourful spray lacquered frames. Painting mostly in vinyl paint on mdf. Two large landscape paintings, in oil paint on glas, mark the entrance of two separate floors in the hospital building. Eight pieces in different shapes and sizes are hung both inside the departments and outside in the stair case.
Commissioned by the Region Västra Götaland and installed in 2010
Södra Älvsborg Hospital
Borås 2010
Police Head Quarters
Helsingborg 2006
The police headquarters entrance is open for public. Here, on a light blue painted wall, a collection of mixed furniture from different eras along with some plants and a dog. The title is "Make Yourself at Home”.
The police dining room is for police personel only. Here you find the same furniture and objects but with minor and major changes in colour and arrangement to the police personel to detect and interpret in time. ”Spot the Five Differences " . Both works are done in oil on canvas attached to shaped panels. Sizes; approx. 450 x 250 and 650 x 250 cm.
The hallway that links these two rooms contain paintings with plant motifs from various greenhouses. The 30 paintings measure each 120 x 100 cm and are painted in vinyl paint on paper.
The assignment was commissioned by the Public Art Agency Sweden (Statens Konstråd) and was finished in 2006.
OUTDOOR PROJECTS
Azaleadalen, Slottskogen Gothenburg at the TOMBOLA Parksalong, a large outdoor group exhibition organised by artist group TOMBOLA
Temporary site specific work. Dutch Wax Print cloth. Approx. 230 cm x 18 m
Wet and windy weather conditions on the 30th of May 2015
© Tom Bogaard 2025
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