ANC on ice…

ANC on ice…

Ice Art was commission by the Featherbed Events company to create this 2 block ANC ice sculpture for the ruling party. The ice sculpture was created using 2 blocks of ice, engraved with snow and then inlayed with colour mixed with paint. This sculpture was set up at 5pm and it still looked fantastic at 3am!


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Castle Light Ice Sculptures

S.A Open - Pearl Valley, 2010 Competition.

Castle Lights Ice Ice Baby theme, ties in perfectly with our ice sculpture product and as a result the brand further leveraged its campaign by commissioning Ice Art to create a batch of ice display fridges which held the Castle Light product for brand display, ice drinks chests that held 50 bottles each, and Ice Golf putt-putt courses were produced for the VIP before function, championship tent and Castle Light tent.

The ice golf was a hit as always and if you could get three “hole in ones”, there were some fantastic prizes to be won.

For more information and details you can check out our website here or check out the Ice Art Press Office here.

The ice golf course was made out the Ice Art factory and brought to site to be installed. After leveling the playing field to make sure the ball did not roll with gravity we installed the slabs of ice. Once all aligned, the ice sculpture was ironed to be a totally flat playing surface, using a stainless steel sheet heated in the sun – and then the ice rails which made up the sides were added. The queue to chance your luck on the course was 50 m long at one stage!

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Ice Sculptures - Summer Meltdown!

Liquifruit National Roadshow 2009– Summer Meltdown!



Ice Art and Liquifruit worked together with Sisters Act, Bester Burke and Vanilla Concrete to complete a 12 day, 7 city, Summer Meltdown National Road-show that saw the event run from cape Town to JHB, PTA, DBN, EL, PE , PLETT and back to Cape Town again for the finale on Camps Bay Beach on the 28th Dec.

The ice sculpture concept was a very unique activation for the consumers – The fruit flavours of Liquifruit were frozen into multiple blocks for events at the various cities. Along with the fruit was a key inside each block which consumers had to “burn out” using the water from a Wazooka water pistol. It was a like a mass water fight. The key opened a special chest and the winner took the money. The blocks were lined up and the MC fired the gun and the contestants battled away in the summer meltdown!

Each crystal clear ice block weighed more than 140kg and took 4-5 days to produce while carefully freezing in the fruit and keys in layers. A 24 ton freezer truck was required to take the ice blocks from venue to venue on the 5000km round trip. Visually, the ice sculptures looked fantastic and even in the heat of the day withstood the temperatures to remain unchanged.

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Ice sculptures of Famous Faces

Ice Sculpture portaits of Famous Legends - using just snow, paint and ice...

Ice Art was challenged to create a series of famous face portraits using just snow, paint and ice. Each portrait was hand carved, and the result was excellent.

The event was the launch of the New Cape Quarter in Cape Town and the faces of legends of the past included – Marilyn Monroe, Surrealist Salvador Dali, Pavarotti, John Lennon and Michael Jackson among others.

This technique requires the details of the faces to be carved out in different levels in the ice block. Coloured paint is then mixed with snow and then separately laid into the correct level and frozen. The details of the faces are built up with these coloured layers until the final image comes together in style. The image is then trapped inside the block by welding another ice plate onto the rear of the image. Portraits like these can look good for 10 hours or more.

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Ice Sculpture - What a Wreck!...

Ice Art was commission by the South African Heritage Resources Agency Special Projects Department, in association with the Department of Arts and Culture to carve an ice sculpture of a Spanish Galleon shipwreck in celebration of national marine week.

A shipwreck initially posed a problem – there is generally not much left on a shipwreck... and whatever does remain is in tatters – Can we make this look effective in ice. Plus the fact that we can’t make the masts out of ice at this scale or they would simply break... We made a simple plan however using Perspex, fishing line and ripped satin to create the sails and masts. 2 blocks of ice were then used to create the bow and stern sections of the shipwreck ice sculpture.

On site the two halves of ice were placed together and then the sails slotted into the pre-drilled holes – the result was very effective and the client was very happy with the visual appeal.

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Ice Sculptures - A green industry for sure...

I received the following information from Aaron Costic at Elegant Ice Creations in the US and it was of environmental interest. I subscribe to his newsletters and this was an interesting read.


Don Chappelle, an ice carver from the Northeast of the US recently brought up a good point. He said our businesses and planet can benefit from being greener. This is posted on his website-


Brilliant Ice Sculptures - a Green Company.

At the end of the night when the party is over our sculptures will end up watering trees, vegetable gardens or flower beds as opposed to filling up dumpsters then landfills.


Ice sculptures are cutting edge yet sustainable products that help minimize the impact of waste created by the hospitality industry for event planning.


We deliver 95 percent of our sculptures with low-emission vehicles.


We reuse or recycle our plastic drip trays, lights and foam when used.


Our plant is heated by our freezer condensers only.


We recycle remaining ice from ice sculpture production to chill the water for the next batch of ice blocks, an energy savings of 25% per block.


Ice Sculpture creates very little waste materials other than organic earth-healthy waste; minimal plastic is used in the making of ice blocks which is reused several times for packing materials.


We use only natural ingredients, we do not use chemicals of any kind in the process of creating these amazing sculptures.


Only organic cleaning products are use in the cleaning of our facility.


Don has reported that this has boosted sales to those interested specifically in Green products.


Mike Kowalski mentioned recently that we should be using a soy based lubricant instead of WD-40 or a lithium spray. He is right, our product is either displayed right next to or touching food products. We should be using an organic lubricant.

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Ice sculptures and the FIFA 2010 World Cup Soccer

FIFA 2010 World Cup and Ice Sculptures...

It was only a year ago that the 2010 World Cup looked like a distant milestone that was to be considered much later – now with 290 days to go its almost upon us and before you can blink it will be over.

Being prepared with your creatives is a must with ice sculptures for your functions and events. At Ice Art we have already started taking ice sculpture bookings for pre-match and post match functions, and corporate themed events for the 2010 during the World Cup period for a variety of ice carvings.

In fact we have already been commissioned on a number of ice sculptures between now and the end of the Year for build up events and the fever is already rising in S.A…C’mon Baby!

With our ice sculptures and skilled carvers we can create so many varied themes for the soccer sport, from action sculptures to the FIFA logo, footballs, trophies – Just look at the World Cup Rugby trophy we created just recently just imagine this translated into a ice sculpture of the Soccer world Cup trophy.

Ice sculptures and ice bars like this Adidas football sculpture with the FIFA logo can be adopted to have any company logo or insignia combined into the ice sculpture. It can also be made into a luge or a fountain.

Do drop us a line anytime if you have any questions or require quotes and don’t forget to visit our Press Office and Ice Art Website for extra info.


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