Samat is a pioneer in the contemporary weaving world, promoting the woven tradition by blending Malaysian Songket textile with her own unique and contemporary style and techniques. She creates colourful and elaborate totems inspired by ancient tales of her ancestry, evoking her familial lineage and the different cultures in Malaysia. Her work merges the old with the new; the feminine with the masculine. Anne Samat graduated with a Degree in Art and Design at Mara Institute of Technology Malaysia in 1995 majoring in Weaving and minor in Print and Resist. Her first solo exhibition titled Sultanate in the Eye, Monarchy at Heart was held at Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur. She had participated in numerous group shows locally and internationally namely Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Art Stage Singapore, I:cat Gallery in Laos, India Art Fair, Pearl Lam Galleries Singapore and many more. Her recent solo exhibition Greatest Love was held at Hudson Valley MOCA, New York, United States (2019).