Agency Projects is proud to present Anya’s Puntawarri World! – a solo show in collaboration with Martumili Artists and Emilia Galatis Projects.
Featuring a fresh suite of paintings, neon motifs and textured rugs, Agency invites you to the Wukun Wanambi Project Space for the opening event, alongside artist Anya Samson and co-curator Emilia Galatis.
The exhibition runs 18 February – 27 March 2026.
Image: Judith Anya Samson, Anya’s Puntawarri World! Installation view at DADAA Gallery Fremantle. Image by Danica Zuks, 2025
Judith Anya Samson is a mid-career Martu artist who was raised by her grandma and spent much time travelling to her ancestral Country around the Rabbit Proof Fence areas, near Jigalong. Fusing jukurrpa (Dreaming), Country and colonial history, Anya’s world is a multilayered version of remote life in the Pilbara; a major mining region, alongside an ancestral story of enduring custodianship. In the unique aesthetic of her grandmother, her gestural and seemingly abstract style is a series of codes and symbols relating to thousands of years of knowledge and the lived colonial experience of the Western Desert. Anya’s vision for Anya’s Puntawarri World grew from a workshop facilitated by creative producer Emilia Galatis several years ago, in which artists pitched their ‘dream’ big vision project. Anya said she wanted to create a whole world out of her paintings where audiences could step inside her artwork and explore the different painterly elements that form her unique contemporary wayfinding. Anya and Emilia then worked to bring the project to reality, and in February 2025 the exhibition debuted as part of Perth Festival at DADAA Gallery in Walyalup|Fremantle. Agency is delighted to present this new iteration of Anya’s Puntawarri World to audiences in Narrm|Melbourne.