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Born: 1964, Liverpool, UK
Elected RA: 26 May 2011
Category of Membership: Engraver
Anne Desmet, 'London Olympic Velodrome Site', 2010. Wood engraving & stencilling printed on Gampi Vellum paper. 100 x 125 mm.
Anne Desmet studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford and the Central School of Art and Design. She was awarded a scholarship at the British School at Rome in 1989, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter - Printmakers, a Member of the Society of Wood Engravers and is currently editor of Printmaking Today.
Desmet uses collage and print to depict the built environment. She is engaged with the evolution of the urban landscape and its testimony to the aspirations and experiences of humanity. Her abiding subjects are Italy and London.
She uses the traditional printmaking techniques of wood engraving and lino cutting, but draws on a variety of materials to create layered collages. Her work ranges from small scale, detailed examinations to sweeping, often fantastical, panoramas viewed from a bird’s eye perspective.
Read an interview with Anne Desmet in RA Magazine Autumn 2012
Solo Exhibitions
2013 Museo della Stampa, Piedmont, Italy
2012 Hart Gallery, London
2009 Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate
Gainsborough's House, Sudbury
Cornerstone, Liverpool Hope University
2008 Whitworth Gallery, Manchester (& touring UK)
Hart Gallery, London
2006 Hart Gallery, London
2004 Blender Gallery, Oxfordshire
Hart Gallery, London
2002 Duncan Campbell Fine Art, London
2002 Wrexham Arts Centre, Wales
1998 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
1995 Ex Libris Museum, Moscow, Russia
Public Collections
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
National Art Library, London
The Museum of London,
British Museum, London
British Library, London
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Manchester University
Royal Collection, London
Aberystwyth Univeristy
Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate
Bradford Museums & Art Galleries
Worcester College, Oxford
Balliol College, Oxford
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
Publications
Anne Desmet, Primary Prints, A&C Black, 2010
Anne Desmet and Jim Anderson, Handmade Prints, A&C Black, 2000
Timothy Wilson, Anne Desmet: Towers and Transformations, Ashmolean Museum, 1998
Contact details for further information
Email membershipoffice@royalacademy.org.uk
