Sam Duckor-Jones

[2] His father is the New Zealand author, Lloyd Jones, and his brother is Avi Duckor-Jones, who won season one of Survivor NZ.

[7] His sculptures have been displayed at the Bowen Gallery in Wellington, Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History in Masterton, and the Auckland Botanic Gardens in Manurewa.

[13][14] In 2017, Duckor-Jones completed his Master of Arts (MA) degree in creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington.

[19][20] In 2021, Duckor-Jones bought St Andrew's Church in Greymouth, and has since converted it into a "queer place of worship"; a sculpture, named Gloria.

[7] Duckor-Jones named the structure Gloria in reference to "Christian hymns, disco and a make-believe character [he] and his brother created when they were children".

[2] In early June 2022, Gloria was vandalised with homophobic and anti-Semitic messages, references to Leviticus, and a pride flag being burned on the front lawn.