Annabel Dover Explained

Annabel Dover
Birth Place:Liverpool, England
Education:Newcastle University
Central Saint Martins, London
Cambridge University
Occupation:Artist

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]

Dover uses a variety of media including painting, photography, video,[5] drawing and cyanotype.[6] Her approach is to explore social relationships that are mediated through objects. 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

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dover, Annabel, b.1975 . Art UK . 12 August 2021 .
  2. Web site: Annabel Dover. Contemporary British Painting. 4 June 2016. 30 June 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160630035908/http://www.contemporarybritishpainting.com/wordpress/?page_id=3983. dead.
  3. Web site: Annabel Dover. Transition Gallery. 4 June 2016. 6 August 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160806221547/http://www.transitiongallery.co.uk/htmlpages/transition_artists/annabel_dover_cv.html. dead.
  4. Web site: DOVER, Annabel. Suffolk Painters . 4 June 2016.
  5. Web site: Annabel Dover – Jacqueline. Streaming Festival. 4 June 2016.
  6. Web site: Thu 18 Nov 7-9pm – OPENING of ALEX PEARL and ANNABEL DOVER @ CoExist Galleries. Idea13. 11 November 2010 . 4 June 2016.
  7. Web site: Contemporary Art and War. 9 October 2013. Imperial War Museums. 4 June 2016.
  8. Web site: Annabel Dover. Tainted Love. 4 June 2016.
  9. Book: Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colours. Carol Mavor. Reaktion Books. 2013. 978-1780230832.
  10. https://www.manderleypress.com/artist-spotlight/annabeldover
  11. waterstones. "Florilegia (Paperback)." waterstones, 31 May. 2021.
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  17. waterstones. "Florilegia (Paperback)." waterstones, 31 May. 2021.
  18. Howell, Anthony. "A clutch of ingenious authors." Fortnightly Review, Dec. 2023.
  19. Web site: The Priseman Seabrook Collection of 21st Century British Painting. Contemporary British Painting. n.d. . 29 May 2016 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160424035947/http://www.contemporarybritishpainting.com/wordpress/?page_id=2388 . 24 April 2016 .
  20. Web site: Artists delve into their memories for evocative and personal exhibition.... Wilkes. Rob. 10 June 2015. We Heart. 4 June 2016.
  21. Web site: fresh news from the past . The Positive. 4 June 2016.
  22. Web site: Aldeburgh Poetry Festival . https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20140805112837/http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/images/uploads/pdfs/2014_apf_prog.pdf . dead. 5 August 2014 . The Poetry Trust . 2014 .

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