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Annabel Dover
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.[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 WorkDover'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
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