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How can Snow and Ice expertise create jobs and drive the local economy? 'Snow Expertise from Lapland as an Export Product, 2011–2013' was a project is aimed at combining design competence, Lapland's winter arts and events, and snow and ice construction technologies in order to develop an export product in cooperation with educational organisations and businesses.
The objective was to develop an internationally competitive service innovation product to leverage Lapland's versatile expertise of snow-related technologies and applications in different events and offerings of the tourism industry.
Project Manager was Antti-Jussi Yliharju, University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design
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Wenjing Chen is a Master program student in Landscape and territory study, Arkitektur-og designhøgskolen i Oslo.
When ground all covered by snow, there will be no border on land, so the ski track in middle of Tromsø island could extend to downtown by cross possible place, cross road with temporary bridge, cross steep area with walking stairs, cross cemetery and even cross people’s backyard, which only could happen in winter. But all these possibilities need proper infrastructure to support.
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Ice sculpture 220x100x70cm, Kautokeino, Norway by Elizabeth Kristensen
The Center is a play on the form of the human spine. Kristensen used the poem 'The center of the world' by Piet Hein as inspiration. He said that humans, walking amongst planets and stars, are seeking a center for their world, some solid archi-median point. But the world is complex, the center of the world is something you must create in yourself. If it is not in you, it is nowhere to be found.
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Ivan Loktiukhin is a designer, and artist-sculptor from Russia. Since 1999, he has been working full-time as a snow and ice artist, making sculptures from ice, snow, wood, sand, scrap metal & stone. He is a participant & multiple winner of 80 sculptural festivals and workshops in 30 cities in Russia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Finland, Norway and USA.
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Dmitrii Novitskii was born 31th of January in 1971 and has a higher education in art, graduating from Cherepovets State University. He works with various graphic and painting techniques, and specialises in installations, performance, snow, ice, sand and wooden sculpting. Dmitrii has taken part in different regional, zone, russian and international exhibitions and art projects and is a member of ‘The Union of artists in Russia’ since 2008. He is a teacher in the children’s art school in Murmansk.
With years of experience working in snow and ice, he is a well-known professional participant of competitions of a snow and ice sculpture in Russia, in Norway, in Finland. The main idea of his work is simplicity and expression of nature and natural forms as well as the ‘surrealism’ of everyday objects.
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“When the days get short and the temperature drops the urge rises to get out in the cold and finally transform the dreamed white world into a worldly white dream” - Lukas Arons
Lukas Arons, born in the Netherlands in 1968, is a professional sculptor who works mostly in granite in his studio "StoneZone" in Bohuslän, Sweden and in his studio at Sixthfloor in Koerich, Luxembourg. Besides commissions for monumental sculptures in the public domain, Arons works with smaller sculptures for the private sector. In wintertime he turns his attention to snow, ice and light as materials of expression.
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Munch in Ice was an installation at the Nordic World Ski Championships, 2011, curated by Ole Morten Rokvam. Ice sculptors from all around the world came to Norway to create their own interpretation in ice of several paintings by the famous Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. One could wander around in the world of Munch, where well-known paintings like 'The Girls on the Bridge', 'The Scream', 'Golgotha', 'Kiss', 'The Sick Girl' and others have been recreated in ice sculptures that were very popular with the visiting public.
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Elena Timofeeva is a teacher and the head of the Children's Art School Palace of Children and Youth in Petrozavodsk, and a sculptor of snow, ice, sand. As an artist, she also paints, and works with ceramics. Her work in snow and ice and introduced her to create large scale land art objects, often engaging children and adults Snow and Ice Sculpture community work in the Republic of Karelia, Russia.
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Tongue Twister is part of a series of snow and ice sculptures by Elisabet Kristensen, inspired by the Sami language. The sculpture was materialised in ice in Kautokeino, Norway in 2013, and in snow during the Chicago snow days competition in 2014, where it was awarded 1st prize. The Snow sculpture is 350x180x180cm.
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The Tundra - Melting Ice Precious Earth Project brought 12 tons of natural ice from Lapland to France to create a compact ice circle protected with a layer of French soil and grass on top. The ice melted despite its protection, and the size, mass, power and strength of the material. No matter how much ice there was, the delicate metaphor for nature, cannot take heat. The ice disappeared in front of our eyes, and the process was irreversible.
The Tundra sculpture intends to raise awareness of the melting process which is taking place globally on an incomprehensible scale and with globally devastating consequences. The polar ice, glaciers and permafrost are melting at a high speed, with dramatic and tragic effects that many of the world’s population have already experienced.
By Laila Kolostyák, 2007.