Mike Bradshaw – Send No Flowers

by RJ

Mike Bradshaw’s smugly disparaging comments about Floral Design betray, yet again, the dismally shallow intellectual snobbery currently pervading LCC and UAL senior management.

Well, Mike, Floral Design might not have the complexity of point and click photography, but it does involve real creativity and has global appeal across many diverse cultures. UAL had a successful, profitable and world-beating course, created, developed and delivered by Gill Wheeler (a descendant of William Morris - founder of the Arts & Crafts Movement) but her course, like others, has been destroyed and she has been discarded.

Perhaps, with an overwhelmingly male, white, middle-aged, middle-class management team, we can look forward to an increasingly narrow and mechanistic definition of what constitutes creativity and worth, and little respect for the importance of diversity.

Another step in their macho funeral march.

Please, send no flowers.