Frieze Sculpture 2025: UniFor, Assemble and Plinth present Fibredog in Regent’s Park
when
2025
where
London
From 17 September to 2 November 2025, Frieze Sculpture returns to London’s Regent’s Park under the curatorship of Fatoş Üstek. This year’s edition, titled In the Shadows, explores darkness as a creative and generative space, where memory, material, and myth intersect. Among the international artists selected, Assemble, the award-winning London-based collective, unveils Fibredog, a monumental sculpture realised in collaboration with UniFor and Plinth.
Conceived as a contemporary folklore for the city, Fibredog transforms a natural landmark in Regent’s Park into a place of gathering and reflection. Built from cedar wood, hazel and willow branches, woven wicker, sedge grass thatching and reflective nylon guy ropes, the work is at once architecture and sculpture: a shelter resembling a thatched roof, a creature that is both playful and uncanny, and a monument inviting ritual, play, and collective imagination.
The collaboration between Assemble and UniFor began in 2024 during the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Their shared vision has now taken form in Fibredog. Realised in Italy at UniFor’s manufacturing plant, the sculpture combines the company’s engineering expertise and artisanal know-how with traditional craft techniques, including the thatching mastery of Mark Harrington and the basket weaving of Mollie McMillen.
With this project, UniFor translates avant-garde artistic visions into technically complex and finely crafted structures. Standing at the intersection of art, architecture, and design, Fibredog also reflects a renewed attention to sustainable making, balancing local and global materials, contemporary technologies and pre-industrial methods. A shelter, a creature, a monument: it is a testament to the creativity that emerges when international artists and Italian manufacturers join forces.
