Sculptor Simon Lewis Wards didn't fit the school system particularly well, so he left in his early teens, and in a fortuitous twist, ended up helping out his mate's dad (the late John Croucher, a pioneer in Aotearoa's glass-art movement in the ‘70s) in his glass studio. During the wayward years that followed, Simon jumped from job to job, before finding his way back to glass and starting to sculpt it seriously in his early 30s.
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