{"id":68606,"date":"2026-03-06T14:58:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?p=68606"},"modified":"2026-03-06T14:58:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:58:50","slug":"sheffield-sculptor-aims-for-more-global-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/sheffield-sculptor-aims-for-more-global-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield sculptor aims for more global success"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sheffield sculptor Steve Roche was part of the four-person Great Britain team that won the public vote and placed third in the technical judging at the World Snow Festival in Grindelwald, Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the success, Steve is staying grounded and returning to his main craft of stone sculpting, with several projects already lined up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve said the experience has opened his eyes to a world of snow sculpting he had not known about before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d definitely do it again, it was good fun\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are also competitions in the States and Canada, as well as a big one in China which you can only apply to if you&#8217;ve won an international competition,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo who knows.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sheffield sculptor wins at Swiss snow festival\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CstudNJXZac?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheffield Stone Mason wins in team of 4 at  the World Snow Festival <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":774,"featured_media":68624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,21,1,103],"tags":[1343,38,2054,2053],"class_list":["post-68606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-news","category-uncategorised","category-watch","tag-sculpture","tag-sheffield","tag-stonemason","tag-switzerland"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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