Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
Those of you who, like me, studied Latin at school and University will know that this phrase means 'Thus Passes Worldly Glory', ie fame is fleeting and the glorious are soon forgotten. But fortunately that is not the case in this Blog. I recently compiled for the members of the NZ Society of Artists in Glass a quiz on earlier NZ glass artists. Some of the questions were easy, come were harder. One question, however, was apparently so hard that not a single person answered correctly. I asked: Which two artists made glass under the partnership name Gloria in Auckland in the 1990s? The answer is Ruth Allen and Vivienne Bell . The fact that they appear to have been forgotten is all the more galling since Ruth was the President of the NZ Society of Artists in Glass in 1996-8, and Vivienne was a speaker at NZSAG panels and conferences at the same period. Signed GLORIA NZ 1997 Ruth Allen was born in New Zealand, and attended t...