Anders Årfelt

Per Anders Årfelt (born 8 March 1934) is a Swedish sculptor.

He is based on Gotland, Sweden's largest island, and often works in concrete. He produced a concrete sculpture of a ram, which appears on the coat of arms of Gotland, for Österport in Visby in 1992. This was a development of an earlier lamb sculpture he made for the Melonen district of the town. The ram proved popular and he was commissioned to create copies for other municipalities on the island.

Årfelt was commissioned to sculpt lions in the style of the rams for Stockholm; lions feature as supporters on the coat of arms of Sweden. The lions weighed each. The overturned lion became the site of tributes to the dead and there were calls for it to be recreated in bronze. After the attack Årfelt said that the lions symbolise power and strength. Two were originally ordered as prototypes but by March 2019 four were installed on Drottninggatan and a further 16 were in production. The new lion sculptures were manufactured at a Skanska factory on Gotland.

Images of sculptures