Annabel Dover

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Annabel Dover
Born
Liverpool, England
EducationNewcastle University
Central Saint Martins, London
Cambridge University
OccupationArtist
Website annabeldover.com

Annabel Dover (born 1975 [1] in Liverpool [2] ) is a British artist. She has a BA (Hons) in fine art from Newcastle University (1998), an MA in fine art from Central Saint Martins, London (2002), [3] and a teaching qualification (PGCE) in art and design from the University of Cambridge (2003). [4]

Contents

Dover uses a variety of media including painting, photography, video, [5] drawing and cyanotype. [3] [4] [6] Her approach is to explore social relationships that are mediated through objects. [2] The Imperial War Museum acquired a set of Dover's cyanotypes [7] [8] which also appear in Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour by Carol Mavor. [9]

Literary Work

Dover's debut novel Florilegia was published in 2022 by Cool Moist Books. [10] It is a work of literary fiction exploring themes of memory, nature, and the artistic process.

Critical Reception

"Haunting, enchanting, and forensically observed... a tender, anthropological elegy, and it will stay with you long after you finish it." - Sophie Dahl [11]

"A staggering accomplishment. Impossible to categorise, this is a work of exquisite art; encyclopaedic in its scope, drawing connections across time and cultures. An alchemist, Annabel Dover transmutes the minutiae of life into poetry." - Heidi James [12]

"Annabel Dover's writing is a delight: inquisitive, keen-eyed, alive with colour and texture; she has the rare ability to make details sing. I loved this book." - Laura Barton [13]

"You'll never read another book like this... it defies any description save that it is mad, enchanting and mesmerising.... At its end I had no idea what I had been reading but I know it's a work of art." - Polly Devlin [14]

"A fascinating, subversive and moving tribute to forgotten women by a unique artist." - Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett [15]

"A trippy, hyper-connected, vastly entertaining memoir entangled with the history of art, botany and science. It's hypnotising." - Jennifer Higgie [16]

"Binding and entwining ... exceptional and enjoyable ... minds set racing by the everyday strangeness of the experiences, imaginings and perceptions we have encountered in this extraordinary book." - Declan O'Driscoll [17]

"Dover’s bouquet is illustrated with reproductions of cyanotypes, and her text brings together a sense of printing with flowers, explorations of backstreets, esoteric traditions, curatorial oddities, and quiddities. This is a tough book to describe though. Dover takes no prisoners." - Anthony Howell [18]

Selected collections

Selected exhibitions

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  3. 1 2 "Annabel Dover". Transition Gallery. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
  4. 1 2 "DOVER, Annabel". Suffolk Painters. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
  5. 1 2 "Annabel Dover – Jacqueline". Streaming Festival. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
  6. 1 2 "Thu 18 Nov 7-9pm – OPENING of ALEX PEARL and ANNABEL DOVER @ CoExist Galleries". Idea13. 11 November 2010. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
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