Liverpool-born Anne Desmetis an unconventional printmaker. She works with linocuts layered with gold leaf and colour, often mirrored, slid, ripped and glued or otherwise transformed. Her themes are drawn from classical architecture, real and imagined, in Italy and England.rnFragments are excised from an ideal whole, imported into her world and appropriated for the rhythmic qualities arising from their repetition. If the multiplication of the buildings' DNA sometimes results in ungainly monsters, it also often provides mesmerising effects. It is print-making as pattern-making, an architectural beatbox.rnThe prints on show at Manchester's Whitworth Art Gallery cover the past five years, and space is also found for work from Desmet's 1989 sojourn at the British School in Rome.
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