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.

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 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 and was editor of Printmaking Today from 1998-2013.

Anne Desmet is the author/editor of three printmaking books. She has taught wood-engraving widely, including at the Royal Academy Schools, British Museum and Middlesex University and is a former External Examiner in Fine Art at Aberystwyth University and at Kingston College of Art.

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

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