Annabel Dover was born in Liverpool and educated in Newcastle and London. Her PhD at Chelsea College of Art explored a practice-led response to the cyanotype albums of Anna Atkins. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally.
Through a variety of media including painting, photography, video, cyanotype, and drawing, Dover's work engages the viewer in untold tales of wonder. In her practice she finds herself drawn to objects and the invisible stories that surround them. Through their subtle representation she explores their power as intercessionary agents that allow socially acceptable emotional expression. The work presents itself as a complex mixture of scientific observation and tender girlish enthusiasm.
Dover's 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 the theories of Jung and anthropological research.
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