Lot 260 - Anne Desmet RA - Dawn Flight

Digital print on paper
2024
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Art on a Postcard

About

Anne Desmet RA was born in Liverpool. She has BFA and MA degrees in Fine Art from Oxford University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Printmaking from Central School of Art, London. In 2018 she was elected Honorary Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford University, for ‘distinction in the world of art’. She exhibits wood engravings, linocuts, lithographs and mixed-media printed collages widely, has won over 40 national and international awards (including a Rome Scholarship in Printmaking; Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, USA; three Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Awards, Montreal, Canada; and the London Original Print Fair Prize at the RA Summer Exhibition) and has works in major public and private collections worldwide. The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, and the V&A all have substantial holdings of her work. Over 50 solo shows include two major museum retrospectives at the Ashmolean (1998) and Whitworth (2008) respectively: each toured UK museums for two years. She had an earlier retrospective at Moscow’s Ex Libris Museum, Russia (1995); and different solo exhibitions of recent works at the Holburne Museum, Bath (2017); Gainsborough’s House Museum, Suffolk (2018); Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (2022-23); and Guildhall Art Gallery, London (2024-25). Desmet is author of seven published books on printmaking and drawing (published variously by Bloomsbury, the RA and Ashmolean Publications) and was editor of Printmaking Today magazine from 1998-2013. Commissions include engravings for the British Museum; National Gallery; British Library; V&A; Balliol and Worcester Colleges, Oxford; Sotheby’s and the Royal Mint. She is only the third wood engraver ever elected to membership of the UK’s Royal Academy of Arts (RA) in its 256-year history and she curated an historic exhibition celebrating 100 years of the art of wood engraving for the Ashmolean (2020). She lives and works in London and is represented by Eames Fine Art.