Hart Gallery
Anne Desmet Personal Information
- 1964
- Anne Desmet born in Liverpool, England
- 1964- 70
- Lived with family in father's hotel, Toxteth, Liverpool
Anne Desmet Education
- 1983-86
- BA Fine Art, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art/ Worcester College, Oxford University
- 1987-88
- Advanced Studies in Printmaking Postgraduate Diploma, Central School of Art and Design, London
- 1989-90
- Anne Desmet lived and worked in Rome, Italy
- 1991
- MA Fine Art, Oxford University
Anne Desmet Solo Exhibitions
- 2008
- Whitworth Gallery, Manchester (& touring UK)
- Hart Gallery, London
- 2004
- Blender Gallery, Oxfordshire
- Hart Gallery, London
- 2002, 2000, 98, 96, 94, 92 & 91
- Duncan Campbell Fine Art, London
- 2002
- Wrexham Arts Centre, Wales
- 1999
- Towers and Transformations exhibition toured to: School of Art & Museum, Aberystwyth; Holburne Museum & Crafts Study Centre, Bath; Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University; Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate; Millais Gallery, Southampton Institute; Oriel 31, Newtown, Powys; & Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
- 1998
- Towers and Transformations: major retrospective exhibition, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
- 1995
- Ex Libris Museum, Moscow, Russia
- 1995 & 93
- Godfrey & Watt Gallery, Harrogate
- 1992
- Royal Overseas League, London
- 1990
- Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford
- 1989
- Tudor Hall School, Wykham Park, Banbury
Anne Desmet Two and Four-person Exhibitions
- 1984
- Worcester College, Oxford
- 1985
- St. Johns College, Oxford
- 1987
- Old Fire Station Arts Centre, Oxford
- 1996
- Printworks Gallery, Colchester
- 1999
- Printing from Wood, Artmonsky Arts, London
- FourSight, Royal Over-Seas League, London
- 2000
- Espaco Cultural Yazigi International, Vitoria, Brazil
- 2001
- Urban Evolution: Anne Desmet & Jacqueline Newell, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, USA
- 2002
- De Ploeg print gallery, Groningen, Netherlands
- 2003/4
- Rembrandt Revisited & Anne Desmet, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Anne Desmet Group Exhibitions
- 1990
to date
- Anne Desmet has shown in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition eleven times since 1990.
- She shows regularly with the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and the Society of Wood Engravers, as well as in numerous selected group exhibitions worldwide.
Anne Desmet Publications and associated references
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- The many publications featuring her work include:
- Monoprinting by Jackie Newell & Dee Whittington (A&C Black ltd);
- Collecting Original Prints by Rosemary Simmons (A&C Black ltd);
- Private Views: Artists working today by Judith Palmer (Arts Council);
- 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);
- Printmaking Today magazine - Anne Desmet: Collaged Wood Engravings (feature by Rosemary Simmons);
- The Times;
- The Guardian;
- Art Review;
- Art Monthly;
- The Jackdaw;
- Art & Cities;
- Oxford Times & Burlington Magazine.
- Anne Desmet - Towers and Transformations, a complete catalogue raisonnee of the artist's work, was published by Ashmolean Museum Publications to mark the solo retrospective exhibition (of same title) at the Ashmolean Museum and touring UK.
- She was interviewed about her work on Woman's Hour (Radio 4) in 1998 & 1996.
- She is co-author, with artist Jim Anderson RE, 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 & 2006).
- She is co-editor, with Anthony Dyson RE, of Printmakers: The Directory, a handbook of some 150 professional artist-printmakers, published in 2006 by A&C Black Ltd.
- Since 1998, Desmet has been editor of Printmaking Today - the quarterly journal of international contemporary graphic art.
Anne Desmet Awards and Prizes
- 1987
- Lithography Prize, Printmakers Council (PMC) & Whatman Paper
- National Print Exhibition, Royal Festival Hall, London
- 1988
- Anne Desmet elected Associate of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers (RE)
- 1989 & 96
- The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation (Montreal, Canada) award for representational/ figurative work in Printmaking
- 1989-90
- British School at Rome Scholarship in Printmaking
- 1990
- Artist-in-Residence, Oriel 31 (Davies Memorial Gallery), Newtown, Powys
- 1991
- Rooks Rider Prize, A View of the New Exhibition, Royal Over-seas League, London
- Elected Fellow of the RE
- Elected Member of the Society of Wood Engravers (SWE)
- 1992
- Prizewinner, South Bank Picture Show, Royal Festival Hall, London
- 1994
- The Gordon Tuffrey Memorial Award, Royal West of England
- Academy (RWA) Open Print Exhibition
- 1995
- Anne Desmet awarded medal for most significant exhibition of the year - Ex-libris Museum, Moscow
- 1998
- The Art Review Award, National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
- 1996
- The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation (Montreal Canada) Award for representational printmaking
- 1997
- The S Dawson Taylor Award for a wood engraving, RWA Open Print Exhibition, Bristol
- Southern Arts Award for exhibition publicity for Ashmolean Museum Exhibition
- 1998
- Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, USA The Art Review Award, National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
- 1999
- Purchase Prize, International Mini-Print Exhibition, Connecticut, USA
- 2000
- Exhibition Prize, Mini-Print International Show, Vitoria, Brazil
- Selected art writing, lecturing and related experience
- 1989
- Visiting lecturer in Fine Art/ Printmaking, Leeds Polytechnic
- 1990-91
- Lecturer in Fine Art/ Printmaking, Royal Academy Schools, London
- 2004
- Commissioned to tutor woodcutting workshop in chiaroscuro techniques at the British Museum
- 2006
- Rachel Reckitt Award,Society of Wood engravers'Annual Exhibition, Touring.
- 2007
- An Honorory Prize for 6th International Mini Print Triennial at Lahti Art Museum, Lahti, Finland.
Anne Desmet Selected Commissions
- 1987
- Wood engraving of & for Central School of Art & Design, London
- 1988
- Wood engraved illustrations for Young Dragon Book of Verse published by Oxford University Press
- 1991-93 23
- wood engraved illustrations for The Times
- 1993
- Wood engraved logo for the Abbey School, Tewkesbury
- 1993
- Wood engraved letterhead for The Times newspaper
- 1994
- Illustration for calendar, for National Grid PLC
- 1995
- Wood engraving, in an edition of 250, of & for Balliol College, Oxford
- Watercolour of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for children, East London
- Woodcut of enlarged detail of head of Hercules (from Hercules & the Molionide Twins by Durer); & filmed demonstration of woodcutting techniques for British Museum/ National Gallery video
- 1996
- Wood engraved logo for Sotheby's Auctioneers of their New Bond Street premises, London
- Wood engraving for print portfolio project: Gardens in Relief comprising 14 artists
- Logo design for The Art of the Garden, an RWS & Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers touring exhibition
- 1997
- Wood engraved logo of & for Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-Hill, Gloucs
- 1998
- Wood engraving for new British Library, London: engraved block and print comprise part of a permanent exhibition at the Library demonstrating print processes
- Wood engraving of Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, East London
Anne Desmet Collections
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- Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (has purchased 25 works to date)
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- The National Art Library, London
- British Museum (Education Service)
- British Library
- The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
- Ex Libris museum, Moscow, Russia
- Musee d'Art Contemporain, Chamelieres, France
- Ostrobothnian Museum, Vaasa, Finland
- Museu de Arte de Espirito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil
- Municipal art Gallery, Lodz, Poland
- Worcester College, Oxford
- Balliol College, Oxford
- Slaughter & May, London
- Manchester University Library
- 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