Perimeter Editions x Agency | KNOWN Series Book Launch
Come along to Agency's official launch of the KNOWN series, co-published by Agency and Perimeter Editions, taking place on Saturday February 21 from 2pm. Presented as part of Melbourne Art Fair's 2026 program, the launch comprises an afternoon of readings and conversation with artists from the KNOWN series, alongside Agency’s Cultural Liaison and Public Programs Lead, Leila Gurruwiwi.
KNOWN is a series of publications that promotes and celebrates contemporary Indigenous Australian artists, facilitating cross-cultural dialogue between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and writers. KNOWN elevates and amplifies First Nations voices; strengthening cultural knowledge, language, and artistic engagement. The KNOWN series is designed to foster knowledge exchange within communities and acknowledges contemporary Indigenous Australian artists on both national and international stages.
EVENT DETAILS
Agency Knowledge Centre
47 Easey Street
Collingwood VIC 3066
February 21 2026, 2pm–3.30pm
This is a free event, but reservations are required – RSVP here!
AVAILABLE FROM THE KNOWN SERIES:
KNOWN: Marrnyula Munuŋgurr
This volume traces the work of Marrnyula Munuŋgurr, a Yolŋu woman, senior artist, and printmaker who has been working as part of the Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre in Yirrkala, Arnhem Land, since the 1980s. Raised in a family of prolific artists, she is perhaps best known for her vast installations of meticulously painted and arranged small barks. In 2020, she won the bark painting category of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards. The book traces both Munungurr’s artworks and documentation of her life on country. It features a major text by leading scholar and curator Maia Nuku, Evelyn A. J. Hall and John A. Friede Curator for Oceanic Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and a brief interview with the artist that is also translated into language.
KNOWN: Katie West
This volume features Katie West, a Yindjibarndi woman and artist based in Noongar Ballardong boodja (Country), whose work spans found and naturally dyed textiles, video, sound, and social practice in its consideration of the ways in which we weave our stories, places, histories, and futures. Having shown in solo and group exhibitions at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA), her work is grounded in the understanding that the health of human society and Country mirror one another. The book features a text by renowned author and Noongar woman Claire G. Coleman, complete with translations in language.