Anne Desmet
(English, born 1964)
Member: RE (Roayl Society of Painter - Printmakers)
Anne is editor of Printmaking Today - the quarterly journal of contemporary international graphic art; and co-author of Handmade Prints - an introduction to creative printmaking without a press, published, in October 2000, by A&C Black (London), Davis (USA) and Haupt (Germany), reprinted in 2003 & 2006. She is also co-editor of Printmakers - the Directory published in 2006 by A&C Black. Other publications featuring her work include: Anne Desmet:Towers and Transformations - catalogue raisonne (Ashmolean Museum, 1998); Private Views: Artists working today (Serpent's Tail, 2004, commissioned by the Arts Council); Wood Engraving and the Woodcut in Britain c.1890-1990 (Barrie & Jenkins, 1994); The Times, Art Review, Art Monthly, Burlington, The Guardian and The New York Times.
Commissions include engravings for the Victoria & Albert Museum, British Library, British Museum, National Gallery, Sotheby's, The Times, Vital Arts (London) NHS Trust, Balliol College Oxford and Oxford University Press.
Public and private collections with holdings of her work include the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Victoria & Albert Museum, National Art Library, The Museum of London, British Museum, British Library, all London; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; Manchester University; 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; and IMG Corporate, New York, USA
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