Detlef Jumpertz

Yep, I'm over it, "it" being the rejection of not making the cut for the Waterhouse. In some part it's pretty easy to move on, because I'm happy with drawing (the best drawing of a snail on the web...lol). I've even used it as one of three representative examples of my style for a last minute entry to the 33rd Alice Prize - my only concern being that my entry probably won't arrive in time (why is there no guaranteed overnight mail to any place in the Northern Territory? why didn't I know about it earlier than the weekend before entries close?)!

On another front I am seriously enthused about entering some of my work for consideration for the Perfect Diary 2005. This is such a cool idea, and I had no idea that this diary was in the marketplace, let alone into its 10th year (have I been sleeping under a rock?). You gotta love a production house that says they don't: care about biographies, artists statements and quasi-academic flummery, they don't mind if you wrote a poem over lunch, or made a picture waiting for the bus. They don't care if you're old or young, if you're black, white or pink, if you live in the bush, the city or on the street.

Re: quasi-academic flummery my entry for the Alice Prize required a one page CV - I cobbled together a very skinny one-pager. I mean what can you say when you are self-taught and you've only ever been in 2 exhibitions! And why is all that stuff required for pre-selection anyway - shouldn't it just be about the work? Well shouldn't it?

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