Anne Desmet

Anne Desmet RA (born 14 June 1964) is a British artist who specializes in wood engravings, linocuts and mixed media collages. She has had three major museum retrospectives, received over 30 international awards, and her work is in museum collections and publications worldwide.

Life and education

Anne Desmet was born in Liverpool and studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford and the Central School of Art and Design.[1] She obtained a master's degree and subsequently, a postgraduate diploma in printmaking.[2] 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.

Career

Anne Desmet became a became a lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools, Ruskin School, Middlesex University and Leeds Polytechnic.[3] Desmot is also a former External Examiner in Fine Art at Aberystwyth University and at Kingston College of Art.

Desmet is the author/editor of three printmaking books, Printmaking Today, from 1998 to 2013, and co-author of Handmade Prints in 2000.[4]

Desmet was elected as a Royal Academician on 26 May 2011.[1] Desmet is only the third wood engraver ever elected to the RA.

Awards and prizes

  1. Greenshields Foundation Award (1989 and 1996)
  2. British School at Rome Scholarship in Printmaking (1989-1990)
  3. Gordon Tuffrey Memorial Award
  4. RWA Open Print Exhibition (1995)
  5. Exhibition Medal (1995)
  6. Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award (1998)

Work

Desmet uses collage and print to capture urban landscapes.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Royal Academy of Arts: Anne Desmet RA | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts, accessdate: 29 August 2014
  2. ↑ Buckman, David (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945. Art Dictionaries Ltd. p. 409. ISBN 0 953260 95X.
  3. ↑ Buckman, David (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945. Art Dictionaries Ltd. p. 409. ISBN 0 953260 95X.
  4. ↑ Buckman, David (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945. Art Dictionaries Ltd. p. 409. ISBN 0 953260 95X.
  5. ↑ "Anne Desmet Profile". Royal Academy of Arts.


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