I cannot believe how prevalent is the Tall Poppy Syndrome in the arts community.
It sounds like sour grapes and it is totally counter-productive.
The enemy is not your fellow artist - it is the lack of education and the continuous shooting in the foot reaction to efforts to change that.
In a discussion on Tony Moffitt's blog about group exhibitions someone very nicely tells us how collaboration is beneficial - how group shows attract more people than single - artist galleries, yet people keep attacking any attempts to promote that.
I know art is a solo adventure, but it doesn't have to be a fight for survival of the fittest.
The end benefit is to the wide community and therefore collaboration can only be beneficial. This refers to the Outsiders Festival - Adelaide 1-30 November that I am organising.
I've had, over the last few days, some very nasty reactions to the efforts of promoting the festival, culminating with this beauty from Cat Taylor:
"he's like an untrained dog who pisses all over a house marking territory."
