A mistake I made in my article on the history of glass in New Zealand came home to haunt me the other day. In New Zealand Glass Art I described Inglewood glass artist Chuck Simpson as being Canadian. A trader on TradeMe offering a stoppered bottle by Chuck (at right - TradeMe 428728782) apparently followed my mistake by saying Chuck was Canadian.
The piece at left I bought in 1990 from Masterworks gallery in Parnell, Auckland - it would have been one of the last pieces Chuck made in New Zealand before returning to Australia and the Vesta Hot Glass studio he set up at Eumundi in Queensland with his wife Lesley (formerly Lesley Justin).
Sadly, Chuck Simpson died in April 2001.