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| Anne Desmet is an established artist who
specializes in wood engravings, linocuts and mixed media collages. Her
first major retrospective: Anne Desmet: Towers and Transformations,
opened at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum in 1998. Her second museum-curated
exhibition, Anne Desmet - Urban Evolution, opened at the Whitworth Art
Gallery, Manchester, in 2008, and toured ten UK museums and
public galleries until 2010. 30 international awards include an
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Canada, Award (2007); and a Pollock/
Krasner Foundation, USA, Award (1998); and the LOPF print prize at the
RA Summer Exhibition (2010). Her work is in museum collections
worldwide. Since 1998 she has been editor of Printmaking Today; she is
co-author of Handmade Prints and author of Primary Prints (both books
published by A&C Black). Her work is represented by Hart Gallery,
London, UK, www.hartgallery.co.uk She lives and works in London. |
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| The 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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