"Thanakupi will introduce her most recent works of art in ceramics, conveying the ancestral stories of her Thanaquith people from Western Cape York – Napranum. Thanakupi sees ceramics as a means to communicate the history and laws of her people and as a way to establish a more permanent record of stories usually told through sand drawing and ceremonial performance.
Thanakupi is also a storyteller, educator, community leader and negotiator whose life’s work is dedicated to the recording of her people’s traditional stories and passing it on to the children, maintaining important cultural knowledge.
It is extremely important to relay the traditional stories and culture of her country, which has been at the forefront of her work for over 30 years.
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