ANNE DESMET was born in Liverpool, England, in 1964. She gained a BA & MA at the Ruskin School of Art at Oxford University, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Printmaking at Central School of Art and Design, London. She has taught wood engraving widely, including at the RA Schools, British Museum and Middlesex University and is a former External Examiner in Fine Art at Aberystwyth University and at Kingston College of Art. In 2011, Desmet was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts and is only the third wood engraver ever elected to the RA in its entire history. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE) and the Society of Wood Engravers (SWE). In 2018, she was elected an Honourary Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
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Anne Desmet was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2011, the third wood engraver in history to be so honoured. She studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at University of Oxford and the Central School of Art and Design in London and, in 1989, was awarded a scholarship at the British School at Rome. Anne is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter - Printmakers, a Member of the Society of Wood Engravers and was the Editor of Printmaking Today Magazine from 1998-2013. Her work has been exhibited internationally, with retrospectives in 1998 at the Ashmolean Museum, and at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester in 2008. Her exhibition: Anne Desmet - Olympic Metamorphoses toured the UK from 2010-2012.
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In the Studio: Anne Desmet RA
- RA Magazine Autumn 2012 Anne Desmet RA – The Art of Olympic Metamorphoses - Dulwich OnView Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate: Olympic Metamorphoses by Anne Desmet - The Culture Vulture |
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Born 1964, Liverpool, England
May 2011: Elected to the Royal Academy of Arts
Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter - Printmakers
Member of the Society of Wood Engravers
education
Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, Oxford University - BA & MA
Central School of Art & Design, London - Postgraduate Diploma in Printmaking
1989: British School at Rome - Scholarship
selected 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
2004
Blender Gallery, Oxfordshire
Duncan Campbell Fine Art, London
Wrexham Arts Centre, Wales
selected 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 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
selected publications
2010
Anne Desmet, Primary Prints, A&C Black
2000
Anne Desmet and Jim Anderson,Handmade Prints, A&C Black
1998
Timothy Wilson, Anne Desmet: Towers and Transformations, Ashmolean Museum
May 2011: Elected to the Royal Academy of Arts
Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter - Printmakers
Member of the Society of Wood Engravers
education
Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, Oxford University - BA & MA
Central School of Art & Design, London - Postgraduate Diploma in Printmaking
1989: British School at Rome - Scholarship
selected 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
2004
Blender Gallery, Oxfordshire
Duncan Campbell Fine Art, London
Wrexham Arts Centre, Wales
selected 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 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
selected publications
2010
Anne Desmet, Primary Prints, A&C Black
2000
Anne Desmet and Jim Anderson,Handmade Prints, A&C Black
1998
Timothy Wilson, Anne Desmet: Towers and Transformations, Ashmolean Museum
