Thanakupi b. 1937

Also known as Thancoupie, Gloria James Fletcher
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Ceramist)
Ceramicist whose pottery was informed by the artist's sense of clay's sacred purpose within traditional ceremonial life at the artist's home in Weipa. Her pots were etched and painted with linear animal and human forms drawn from Thaynakwith stories. Thanakupi passed away in 2011.
exhibited at
Clay Dynasty
Date
11 October 2021 - 29 January 2022
Place
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW
Description

An exhibition of three generations of studio ceramics in Australia, from the 1960s when potters were influenced by Bernard Leach’s understanding of Japanese aesthetics, to a more liberated creative approach.
It was drawn in its entirety from the collection of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences.

Tags
ceramcis, studio potters
Website
https://www.maas.museum/event/clay-dynasty/
exhibited at
Turn Turn Turn
Date
5 June 2015 - 8 August 2015
Place
National Art School, Sydney, NSW
Description

Group show celebrating 60 years of the studio ceramics tradition at the National Art School, Darlinghurst, NSW.

exhibited at
Sunshine State Smart State
Date
2007
Place
Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.campbelltown.nsw.gov.au/default.asp?iNavCatID=2354&iSubCatID=2486
exhibited at
Thanakupi: The Gatherer's View
Date
2006
Place
Craft Queensland Gallery, Brisbane, Qld
Description

solo show

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Storyplace, Indigenous Art of Cape York and the Rainforest
Date
2003
Place
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld.
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Thancoupie
Date
2001
Place
Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane, Qld
Description

solo retrospective

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Thancoupie
Date
2001
Place
Brisbane City Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld
Description

Draws inspiration from traditional legends of her Thainakuith culture and translates these traditional stories into contemporary visual images. Ceramic artist and Indigenous Australian potter.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
BCAG exhibition archive; http://www.qag.qld.gov.au/storyplace/artist_thancoupie.htm (21/01/04)

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Ceramics
exhibited at
The National Women's Art Exhibition at Hogarth Galleries
Date
9 April 1995 - 1 April 1995
Place
Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Description

Opened by Destiny Deacon.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Women hold up half the sky
Date
March 1995 - April 1995
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

Opened by the Hon. Dr Carmen Lawrence. Heritage book launched at the same time. The touring exhibition, Sydney by Design, formed one section of this exhibition.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Aboriginal Women's Exhibition
Date
10 September 1991 - 10 November 1991
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Dissonance
Website
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/