Anne Desmet RA | Metamorphosis

Anne Desmet was born in Liverpool in 1964. She has a BA (1986) and MA (1991) in Fine Art from Oxford University, a Postgrad. Dipl. in Printmaking (1988) from Central School of Art & Design, London, and was a Rome Scholar in Printmaking (1989-90). Anne was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) in 2011. In 2018 she was elected an Honorary Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford University, for 'distinction in the world of art'.

Collections with her work include, in UK: Ashmolean Museum; Victoria & Albert Museum, National Art Library; British Museum; British Library; Fitzwilliam Museum; Whitworth Art Gallery; Pallant House Gallery; and overseas at: Ex Libris Museum, Moscow; Musée d'Art Contemporain, Chamalieres, France; Ostrobothnian Museum, Vaasa, Finland; Museu de Arte do Espirito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil; Municipal Art Gallery, Lodz, Poland; Museo Civico, Cremona, Italy; Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut, USA. Anne lives and works in London.