Anne Desmet: Kaleidoscope - Friends of Museum & Art Swindon

Anne Desmet: Kaleidoscope 23rd August 2023 – A Talk

Anne Desmet specializes in wood engraving, linocut, lithography and mixed-media collage. Her subject matter is largely architectural. Yet buildings are subject to metamorphoses relating to the effects of changing light, weather and time passing.

Desmet aims to suggest the timeless solidity, human aspiration, humour, hubris and folly that architectural forms can convey. Also their impermanence and vulnerability.

Her talk will address the evolving themes and diverse techniques involved in her work over the last forty years. There’ll be particular reference to her most recent museum exhibition of new work at the Pallant House Gallery earlier this year.

Anne Desmet: Kaleidoscope - “Early Flight” (2022) Linocuts and wood engravings collaged on archival board, with pencil drawing and watercolour 81 x 71 cm. Unique piece © Anne Desmet 2023

Anne Desmet: Kaleidoscope – “Early Flight” (2022)
Linocuts and wood engravings collaged on archival board, with pencil drawing and watercolour
81 x 71 cm. Unique piece
© Anne Desmet 2023

The Pallant House Gallery

Located in the heart of Chichester on the south coast, Pallant House Gallery is a unique combination of a Grade I Listed, Queen Anne townhouse and an award-winning contemporary extension.

Winner of the 2007 Gulbenkian Prize for Museums and Galleries, Pallant House Gallery features one of the most significant collections of Modern British art in the country.

The Gallery opened in 1982 and forms a ‘collection of collections’ including that of Walter Hussey, the former Dean of Chichester Cathedral. He commissioned much modern religious art by Graham Sutherland, John Piper and others. Charles Kearley’s collection of international modernist artworks by artists such as Gino Severini, Fernand Léger and Ben Nicholson. Also Prof Sir Colin St John Wilson -the architect of the British Library. His collection included iconic works of British Pop Art by Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield, Richard Hamilton and Joe Tilson. All alongside figurative art by the likes of: