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Thanakupi, an Indigienous Australian ceramic artist Aboriginal Ceramics, Casting Portfolio, Ceramic Orbs, Pot Sculpture, Aboriginal Australia, Coil Pottery, Pinch Pot, Public Sculpture, Ceramic Artwork

' Clay at Weipa was sacred. We only used it for ceremony and each colour had a meaning. Red, black, yellow and white. The men used to keep the clay in a special storehouse and we kids were not allowed to touch it. We used it only for decoration, of our bodies and special spears and woomerahs, not to make things. The idea of having my hands in clay was somehow strange but exciting - it was only much later I realised that clay would be my art, and also my legends.'' Ceramic Story Pot 1982…

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