Christmas everyday
Annabel Dover is an artist and writer. Through a variety of media, including painting, photography, video, cyanotype, and drawing, Annabel Dover engages the viewer in untold tales of wonder. Throughout her practice, she finds herself drawn to objects and the invisible stories that surround them. Through their subtle representation, she explores their power as intercessory agents that allow socially acceptable emotional expression. The work is a complex mixture of scientific observation and tender, girlish enthusiasm. Her work is part distillation, part peripatetic ramble through her influences, which range from archaeological illustration, archaic scientific techniques, and the enthusiasms of a Victorian lady to Freud's theories and anthropological research. Dover was born in Liverpool and educated in Newcastle and London. Her PHD at Chelsea College of Art explored a practice-led response to Anna Atkins's cyanotype albums. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally.