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.
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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
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/

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References [<ExternalResource: Powerhouse Museum, 'A10976 Pot, 'Guiree (Nggwiighi) fighting stick and fire', hand built stoneware, carved, oxide decoration, Thancoupie, Trinity Bay, Queensland, Australia, 1984', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Powerhouse Museum, 'A10979 Pot, 'Kembal and Po'o, Crocodile and Blue Tongue Lizard exchange teeth', handbuilt stoneware, carved, oxide decoration, Thancoupie, Trinity Bay, Queensland, Australia, [1984]', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Johnson, Trish (2003), 'Story place: Indigenous Art of Cape York and the Rainforest', Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, Qld, p. 72.>, <ExternalResource: Wright, Simon (2006), 'Thanakupi: Firsthand', Art Monthly, Issue 196, Summer.>, <ExternalResource: (2008), Email correspondence with Isaacs, Jennifer and Thanakupi.>, <ExternalResource: Thompson, Liz (1990), '"Aboriginal Voices"', pp.164, 167.>, <ExternalResource: Isaacs, Jennifer (1982), '"Thancoupie the Potter"', Aboriginal Artists Agency, Sydney, NSW pp.29, 43, 66.>, <ExternalResource: Fletcher, Thancoupie Gloria (2007), 'Thanakupi's Guide to Language and Culture: A Thaynakwith Dictionary', Jennifer Isaacs Arts & Publishing Pty Ltd, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Brook, Natasha (2004), 'Tradition Today: Indigenous Art in Australia, Art Gallery of NSW', Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, pp.134-5.>, <ExternalResource: Tamou, Rima (Producer) (2004), 'Thancoupie: ABC Message Sticks Story', Australian Broadcasting Corporation.>] [<ExternalResource: Powerhouse Museum, 'A10976 Pot, 'Guiree (Nggwiighi) fighting stick and fire', hand built stoneware, carved, oxide decoration, Thancoupie, Trinity Bay, Queensland, Australia, 1984', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Powerhouse Museum, 'A10979 Pot, 'Kembal and Po'o, Crocodile and Blue Tongue Lizard exchange teeth', handbuilt stoneware, carved, oxide decoration, Thancoupie, Trinity Bay, Queensland, Australia, [1984]', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.>]