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| Anne 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. The
Whitworth Art Gallery in 2008 curated a new retrospective: Anne Desmet
- Urban Evolution, which opened in April 2008 and toured UK museums and
galleries until 2010. Since 1987 she has received over 30 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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| Anne 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 and 2011. She is also author of Primary Prints - Creative
Printmaking in the Classroom (A&C Black, 2010) and co-editor of
Printmakers - the Directory published in 2006 by A&C Black. 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); 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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| Commissions include
engravings for the Victoria & Albert Museum, 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, The
Museum of London, British Museum, British Library, all London;
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester;
Manchester University; School of Art & Museum, Aberystwyth
Univeristy; Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate; Bradford Museums & Art
Galleries; Ex Libris Museum, Moscow, Russia; Musee d'Art Contemporain,
Chamalieres, France; Ostrobothnian Museum, Vaasa, Finland; Lahti Art
Museum, Finland; Museu de Arte do Espirito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil;
Municipal Art Gallery, Lodz, Poland; Museo Civico, Cremona, Italy; H M
The Queen; The National Grid PLC; Slaughter & May, London and IMG
Corporate, New York, USA |
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