
She works at the intersection of biography and history, focusing on post-plantation economies by engaging with a particular landscape on Barbados.
Stretching the Tropical
Annalee Davis was invited by Carla Acevedo-Yates and Cristiana Tejo as one of four contributors including Mario García Torres, Moacir dos Anjos and Leandro Nerefuh to respond to the provocation THE TROPICAL: RESISTANCE OR CULTURAL TOURISM?

Walkers - 1667 to present
What Davis seems to be invoking in the viewer is a kind of stereoscopic vision that simultaneously sees the skin of things and the bones beneath, the land and what lies below, history and what it hides.
Notions of common/wealth versus single/wealth
Global art is not only polycentric as a practice, but also demands a polyphonic discourse. Art history has divided the world, whereas the global age tends to restore unity on another level. Not only is the game different: it is also open to new participants who speak in many tongues and who differ in how they conceive of art in a local perspective. We are watching a new mapping of art worlds in the plural which claim geographic and cultural difference.

Unrecognised Affinities
The founding director of The Fresh Milk Art Platform Inc., Annalee Davis, was invited to participate in the 18th International Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil – 30 Years + Southern Panoramas in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The following is an edited version of her presentation ‘Unrecognised Affinities’ delivered at the panel titled ‘Hospitality and the Politics of Mobility’ on November 10, 2013.

Portraits of a White Creole Family
This work presents a portrait of a 21st century, white Creole Barbadian family. Twenty-five stands, cut from a single evergreen Ficus tree, are the support bases for posts which in turn each hold an acrylic, laser cut portrait of my immediate family members. The transparency of the material references the simultaneous visibility and invisibility of the twenty-five profiled white Creole portraits within the context of contemporary Caribbean society.
Joscelyn Gardner: Speaking the Unspeakable
On the occasion of the the solo exhibition White Skin, Black Kin: “Speaking the Unspeakable”, curated by Joscelyn Gardner and Denyse Menard-Greenidge, an Intervention into four galleries at the Barbados Museum, Barbados
A Visual Essay – Art Building Community
How do we consider the value of visual culture within a given context and how do creatives meaningfully engage with collective space and a common audience? What is our relationship to the commons and how might the public engage with aesthetic interventions?

Signs of the Times
Discarded traffic signs procured from Barbados’ Ministry of Transport and Works, have been painted on and placed in rural environments with young men and women – migrant workers from Guyana. This suite of digital photographs proposes a link between road signs giving information to road users and to control the flow of vehicular traffic and the role of the state in controlling the flow of intra-Caribbean human traffic. There is an element of the ridiculous and absurd evident in the act of placing these signs in contexts with migrant agricultural and domestic workers who provide essential labour.
The Work of Jasmine Thomas-Girvan seen through the lens of Magical Realism
On May 25th Holly Bynoe and Nadia Huggins of ARC magazine in collaboration with Medulla Art Gallery presented a panel of five women who were invited to speak about Jasmine Thomas-Girvan’s work. The panel included Melanie Archer, editor of Robert & Christopher Publishers and art director of the trinidad+tobago film festival; Gabrielle Hezekiah, Lecturer in Cultural Studies at UWI, St. Augustine; Sharon Millar, Trinidadian writer; Marsha Pearce, scholar, artist and PhD candidate at UWI, St. Augustine and myself. We were asked to respond to the December 2011 solo exhibition at the Y Gallery – ‘Gardening in the Tropics’ by Jasmine Thomas-Girvan – Trinidadian based, Jamaican metal smith and sculptor.
Has the Plantation Complex Fallen?
This paper was written for an audio-visual presentation delivered at the Society for Caribbean Studies annual conference (2011) which took place at the Liverpool Slavery Museum in the UK. I chose to respond to one of the conference panels which was titled, The Fall of the Plantation Complex and draw a thread to my own work to ask if the plantation complex has indeed fallen
The Perception of the Plural in a Unique Space (2010)
“An approach to the work of the Barbadian artist Annalee Davis cannot be done without a fragmentary, plural perspective, attending to characteristics of its own creative mission that identify with multiple and complex interpretations and approaches to the variants in Caribbean contemporary art. Her work cannot be restricted to a defined esthetic or technical expression, given the variety of approaches and ways of doing what fundamentally characterize the work of this artist.”
by Maria Prada Naida (translated by Margaret Ann Harris)
Relationship home / land in the discourse of identity and self-image (2010)
“Whether in recordings, installations, or painted panels with objects attached, Annalee Davis exposes the interesting relationship home /land ; that is, the term casa, home, and that of homeland, patria. It is a partnership and discourse on identity and self-image that the individual creates of our contexts. This, with the clear aim of making us think.”
by Alena Méndez Moreno (translated by Margaret Ann Harris)

Show me your status
Show me your status presents a recording of a woman from St. Vincent who recounts her experience of being approached on a mini bus by three immigration officials and one police officer and of being publicly humiliated by being asked to show her status.

Public Beach Access

Caution!!
In 2009, I developed a project using an abolitionist poster from 1851. The broadside was originally posted in the streets as a warning to the Coloured People of Boston and was in opposition to the Fugitive Slave law of 1850 that was a threat to all African Americans. The law required citizens to help catch runaways and warned that those who aided a fugitive could be fined or imprisoned. An interracial group formed the Boston Committee of Vigilance and issued the poster to alert free African-Americans to the presence of Policemen who were acting as Slave Catchers and Kidnappers.

Colonial Blackness
Professor of History at Rutgers University, Herman Bennett, selected this relief print, Putting on My Blackness, 1987, for the cover of his book, Colonial Blackness - A History of Afro-Mexico, published by Indiana University Press, 2009.

Hatchlings – A Requiem
Hatchlings - A Requiem, situates the fifteen member countries as insular national states, lying on a bed of the shredded Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas.
Thoughts on Prime Minister Thompson’s New “Amnesty”
In the Diaspora is one of a series of fortnightly columns for the Stabroek newspaper from Guyanese in the diaspora and others with an interest in issues related to Guyana and the Caribbean. This article is a response to Prime Minister David Thompson’s new government policies determined by the Subcommittee on Immigration established in June 2008. The Thompson administration came into power in part on an anti-immigration platform.
Sarah Clunis on Annalee Davis
“The result is a series of hybrid juxtapositions of objects that examine the relationship between past and present issues of land use.”
By Sarah Clunis

Caribbean Journeys
Caribbean Journeys is an ethnographic analysis of the cultural meaning of migration and home in three families of West Indian background that are now dispersed throughout the Caribbean, North America, and Great Britain. Moving migration studies beyond its current focus on sending and receiving societies, Karen Fog Olwig makes migratory family networks the locus of her analysis. For the people whose lives she traces, being “Caribbean” is not necessarily rooted in ongoing visits to their countries of origin, or in ethnic communities in the receiving countries, but rather in family narratives and the maintenance of family networks across vast geographical expanses.