She works at the intersection of biography and history, focusing on post-plantation economies by engaging with a particular landscape on Barbados.
Florilegium: A gathering of flowers
I am excited to announce that a new series of my drawings titled As if the Entanglement of our Lives did not Matter, is part of the exhibition ‘Florilegium: A gathering of flowers’ which brings together new and existing works from 4 contemporary artists and more than 40 established botanical artists. a
(Bush) Tea Plot – A Decolonial Patch for Mill Workers
My new sculptural work, (Bush) Tea Plot – A Decolonial Patch for Mill Workers, expands on my 2019 permanent installation at the EBCCI, UWI, Cave Hill, (Bush) Tea Plot - A Decolonial Patch. The installations link to shared industrial and colonial histories on both sides of the Atlantic; exploring environmental resilience, regeneration, and healing through the use of wild plants before medicine was widely available.
re: wilding
Solo Exhibition — Inside the Haarlem Artspace Gallery will be exhibited the Wild Plant Series, F is for Frances and Sweeping the Fields. A specially commissioned sculpture responding to the 18th century origin of the gallery’s building as an industrial cotton mill will be installed outside. This work is called (Bush) Tea Plot - A Decolonial Patch for Mill Workers.
RA: Representing Artists Newsletter
The quarterly Barbadian and Caribbean arts newsletter RA (Representing Artists) was produced in the early nineties, spearheaded by a group of Barbados-based artists who saw the need to create a forum for more critical writing around contemporary arts in the region.
Leh We Talk
LWT - Leh We talk is a conversational platform facilitating discussions about race and class with people of different backgrounds and in the unique context on the island of Barbados.
In This New World
A conversation between Marsha Pearce and Annalee Davis.
On race and whiteness from the context of Barbados #1
In this global #BlackLivesMatter moment, we are seeing a shift in conversations about race and it feels like a tipping point. White people in Barbados and the wider Caribbean don’t normally speak about whiteness in our context. Is it a generational shift in that younger people are less willing to live socially segregated or oppressed lives? I’m not sure, but it feels like the time to speak about whiteness and call out the more covert ways in which racism and white supremacy have affected our lives in this Small Island Developing State. And as some others have written about their own monologues, this could be more articulate, but I'll throw my hat in the ring.
The healing effects of bush tea: A conversation with Barbadian visual artist Annalee Davis
Bush tea — infusions of indigenous plants and herbs deemed to have medicinal properties — is still fairly well-consumed in the Caribbean. Barbadian visual artist and cultural activist Annalee Davis is taking the concept to a new level through her work around the well-known drink.
Beach as Plot?
The hotel is to be built in historic Bridgetown, near its Garrison area, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Included in the list of buildings are two adjoining warehouses to be demolished to make room for this hotel. The person on the panel representing heritage at the Town Hall Meeting, Andrea Richards, said they would do an archaeological dig once the building is demolished. Surely the goal of listing historic buildings in world heritage sites is not to demolish and then do digs? One of the international architects of the Uruguay based DRS360 Hospitality Lab suggested we locals could “run freely along the beach.”