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Desmet
is an established artist who specializes in wood engravings,
linocuts and mixed-media collage. Her first major retrospective
exhibition, Towers and Transformations, opened at Oxford's Ashmolean
Museum in 1998. Her latest major museum exhibition, Anne Desmet
- Urban Evolution, opened at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester,
this year and is currently touring the UK. 20 international
awards include an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Canada,
Award (2007); and a Pollock/ Krasner Foundation, USA, Award
(1998. Her work is in museum collections worldwide. Since 1998
she has been editor of Printmaking Today; she is co-author of
Handmade Prints - an introduction to creative printmaking without
a press, ISBN 0-7136-4638-1. Her work is represented by Hart
Gallery, London, UK, www.hartgallery.co.uk
She lives and works in
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focus of her work
shifts between Italy (where she held a Rome Scholarship in Printmaking
in 1989/90) and London. Her subject matter pulls in two directions:
one body of work is essentially topographical, but often subject
to metamorphoses; the other is concerned with intuitive architectural
fantasies, urban myths and histories of urban destruction and
regeneration: such as the biblical Tower of Babel and Italy's
Mt. Vesuvius. She aims to suggest the sense of timelessness
and solidity that architectural forms can convey, as well as
their impermanence and vulnerability. |
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