ANNE DESMET

BIOGRAPHY

1964 Born in Liverpool, UK 1983-86 BA Fine Art, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art/Worcester College, Oxford 1987-88 Printmaking Postgraduate Diploma, Central School of Art & Design, London 1991 MA Fine Art, Oxford University 2004 Hart Gallery, London 2002, 2000, 98, 96, 94, 92 & 91  Duncan Campbell Fine Art, London 1998/9 Towers and Transformations : retrospective exhibition, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford & touring to School of Art & Museum, Aberystwyth; Holburne Museum, Bath; Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University; Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate; Millais Gallery, Southampton Institute; Oriel 31, Newtown, Powys; & Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester 1995 Ex Libris Museum, Moscow, Russia 1995 & 93 Godfrey & Watt Gallery, Harrogate 1992 Royal Overseas League, London Anne Desmet has shown in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition eleven times since 1990 and was amongst a small group of artists invited to exhibit their prints with those of Royal Academicians at the RA’s first Winter Print Fair , 2003. Since 1987, she has shown in over 250 selected group exhibitions worldwide. In 2003/4 a body of works by Desmet was exhibited alongside historical works, selected by Desmet, from the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester’s collection, as a special feature of a Whitworth exhibition: Rediscovering Rembrandt . Anne Desmet - Towers and Transformations , a complete catalogue raisonne of the artist's work, was published by Ashmolean Museum Publications to mark the solo retrospective exhibition (of the same title) at the Ashmolean Museum and touring UK. She is co-author of a book: Handmade Prints - An Introduction to Printmaking without a Press , published by A&C Black Publishers ltd (London), Davis (USA) and Haupt (Germany) in 2000 (reprinted in UK, USA and Germany in 2003). Since 1998, Desmet has been editor of Printmaking Today - the quarterly journal of international contemporary graphic art. Other publications featuring her work include: An Artist’s Handbook by Ray Smith (Dorling Kindersley); An Engraver’s Globe by Simon Brett (Primrose Hill Press); Relief Printmaking by Ann Westley (A&C Black ltd); Engravers Two (Silent Books); Wood Engraving and the Woodcut in Britain c1890 - 1990 by James Hamilton (Barrie & Jenkins); The Times; The Guardian; Art Review; Art Monthly; & Burlington Magazine. Desmet was interviewed about her work on Woman's Hour (Radio 4) in 1998 & 1996. Ashmolean Museum (has purchased c.25 works) ; Victoria & Albert Museum; The National Art Library; British Library; British Museum; Fitzwilliam Museum; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; Manchester University Library; Ex Libris Museum, Moscow, Russia; Musee d'Art Contemporain of Chamalieres, France; Ostrobothnian Museum, Vaasa, Finland; Museu de Arte do Espirito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil; Municipal Art Gallery, Lodz, Poland; Worcester College & Balliol College, Oxford; Slaughter & May, London; The National Grid PLC; IMG Corporate, New York, USA; Art Review; H M The Queen; H M The Queen Mother; The Duchess of York; private collections worldwide . 2004 SWE award, Originals04 Print Exhibition , Mall Galleries, London 2000 Exhibition prize: Mini-Print International Show, Vitoria, Brazil 1999 Prize: International Miniature Prints 1999 exhibition, Connecticut GraphicArts Center, USA 1998 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, New York, USA 1998 The Art Review Award, National Print Exhibition , Mall Galleries, London 1997 Southern Arts Award for exhibition publicity for Ashmolean Museum Exhibition 1998 1997 The S Dawson Taylor Award for a wood engraving, RWA Open Print Exhibition , Bristol 1996 The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation (Montreal Canada) Award for representational printmaking . 1995 Medal for most significant exhibition of the year - Ex Libris Museum, Moscow 1994 The Gordon Tuffrey Memorial Award, RWA Open Print Exhibition , Bristol 1992 Prize-winner, South Bank Picture Show , Royal Festival Hall, London 1991 Rooks Rider Prize, A View of the New Exhibition , Royal Overseas League, London 1991 Elected Member of the Society of Wood Engravers (SWE) 1990 Artist-in-Residence, Davies Memorial Gallery (Oriel 31), Newtown, Powys; funded by North Wales Arts 1989-90 British School at Rome Scholarship in Printmaking 1989 The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award for representational printmaking 1987 Lithography Prize, Printmakers' Council (PMC) and Whatman Paper National Print Exhibition , Royal Festival Hall, London