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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. The Whitworth
Art Gallery in 2008 curated a new retrospective: Anne Desmet
- Urban Evolution, which opened in April 2008 and is touring
UK museums and galleries until 2010. Since 1987 she has received
over 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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| 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. She is also 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, 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 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; 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; and
IMG Corporate, New York, USA |
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