Annabel Dover


Annabel Dover is a British artist. She has a BA in fine art from Newcastle University, an MA in fine art from Central Saint Martins, London, and a teaching qualification in art and design from the University of Cambridge.
Dover uses a variety of media including painting, photography, video, drawing and cyanotype. Her approach is to explore social relationships that are mediated through objects. The Imperial War Museum acquired a set of Dover's cyanotypes which also appear in Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour by Carol Mavor.

Literary Work

Dover's debut novel Florilegia was published in 2022 by Cool Moist Books. 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
"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
"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
"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
"A fascinating, subversive and moving tribute to forgotten women by a unique artist." – Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
"A trippy, hyper-connected, vastly entertaining memoir entangled with the history of art, botany and science. It's hypnotising." – Jennifer Higgie
"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
"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

Selected collections