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Desmet was born in Liverpool, UK, in 1964.
She gained a BA
& MA at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, and
a Postgraduate Diploma in Printmaking at Central School of Art
and Design, London, UK. She has taught wood engraving at the
Royal Academy Schools, Ruskin School and Middlesex University;
and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers
and a Member of the Society of Wood Engravers in 1991. Since
1990, she has exhibited in London’s RA Summer Exhibition almost
every year. She also shows in numerous selected group shows
worldwide. In 1998 her retrospective exhibition, Towers and Transformations, opened at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,
before touring to seven other UK museums and galleries, concluding
at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, in 1999. Since 1987
she has received 20 major national and international prizes
for her work including, in 1989-90, a British School at Rome
scholarship in printmaking, a year in which she developed an
ongoing interest in architectural subject matter. She is represented
by Hart Gallery, London, UK. www.hartgallery.co.uk
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is editor of Printmaking
Today -
the quarterly journal of contemporary international
graphic art; and co-author of Handmade Prints – an introduction to creative printmaking without
a press, published, in October 2000, by A&C Black (London),
Davis (USA) and Haupt (Germany), reprinted in 2003 & 2006.
Other publications featuring her work include: Anne
Desmet:Towers and Transformations – catalogue raisonne (Ashmolean
Museum, 1998); Private Views: Artists working today (Serpent’s
Tail, 2004, commissioned by the Arts Council); Wood
Engraving and the Woodcut in Britain c.1890-1990 (Barrie
& Jenkins, 1994); The
Times, Art Review, Art Monthly, Burlington, The Guardian
and The New York
Times. |
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include engravings for the British Library, British
Museum, National Gallery, Sotheby's, The Times,
Vital Arts (London) NHS Trust, Balliol College Oxford and
Oxford University Press. |
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| Public and
private collections
with holdings of her work include the
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Victoria & Albert Museum, National
Art Library, British Museum, British Library, all London; Fitzwilliam
Museum, Cambridge; The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; Manchester
University; Ex Libris Museum, Moscow, Russia; Musee d'Art Contemporain,
Chamalieres, France; Ostrobothnian Museum, Vaasa, Finland; Museu
de Arte do Espirito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil; Municipal Art Gallery,
Lodz, Poland; Museo Civico, Cremona, Italy;
and IMG Corporate, New York, USA |
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