Wear it Purple Day: Made with Meaning | Beading Workshop with Tony Albert

Inspired by Tony Albert's 'You Wreck Me Rosaries', we invite you to create your own beaded affirmations this Wear it Purple Day. With the artist's guidance, take what's important to you and turn it into a proud and fun-to-wear beaded accessory that shouts your hopes, desires and protests for the future. 

About the artist

Tony Albert (Girramay, Yidinji, and Kuku-Yalanji) is one of Australia’s foremost contemporary artists with a longstanding interest in the cultural misrepresentation of Aboriginal people. Drawing on both personal and collective histories, his multidisciplinary practice considers the ways in which optimism might be utilised to overcome adversity. He courageously engages in difficult conversations to shed light on problematic histories and current injustices faced by First Nations people.

A founding member of renowned Indigenous collective proppaNow, Albert’s diverse artistic practice spans photography, painting, stained glass, appropriation of kitsch objects, installation and public art. His work has been featured in 9 solo and over fifty group exhibitions.

Albert is acknowledged industry-wide as a valued ambassador for Indigenous community and culture. He was recently announced as the Artistic Director for the 5th National Indigenous Art TrienniaI: After The Rain for the National Gallery of Australia. He is the first First Nations Curatorial Fellow for the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, the first Indigenous Trustee for the Art Gallery of New South Wales, a member of the Art Gallery of New South Wales Indigenous advisory, a board member for the City of Sydney's Public Art Panel and member of the Art & Place Board at the Queensland Children's Hospital and in January 2023 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Griffith University for his significant contribution to the arts.

Rosary image courtesy Tony Albert