Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a ‘Rubbish’
From a letter in the current issue of the List:
…may I take the opportunity to say that Jack Mottram’s piece in your issue of several months back which profiled the Glasgow art scene was rubbish not because of who he mentioned justifiably but by who he didn’t and therefore what replicates the hierarchy of the art faction mind; a deeply embedded condition. [sic]
- Malcolm Dickinson, Director, Streetlevel Photoworks
I would mount a spirited defence of my work, but I can’t for the life of me remember writing a profile of the Glasgow art scene for the List in the past few months. (In fact, though I can’t be sure, I suspect the letter actually refers to a sidebar that ran with a profile of the Modern Institute in the Sunday Herald.)
I shall attempt to find out from Malcolm what piece he’s referring to, and who it might be that I omitted. Until then, this: given that I had limited space, and that my selections were ‘justified,’ would an unjustifiable selection have made the piece less ‘rubbish’? And, while I am sometimes accused of (and sometimes guilty of) looking too kindly on the work of various Glasgow-based artists - only natural, since I began writing about visual art around the time they were starting to show - I’m damn sure I don’t have an ‘art faction mind,’ deeply embedded or otherwise!
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