Courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation
Annalee Davis (Barbados, 1963) is a Barbadian visual artist and writer whose practice combines history and biography in discussions of ‘post-plantation economies’ with cultural activism in the arts sector. Davis’ works explore Barbados’ transformation from a once biodiverse landscape to sugar plantations and, more recently, a tourism-dependent island—both arguably sectors of enclosure and exclusion. She understands the plantation as an economic model irrevocably impacting the contemporary environment, whose historical legacy has been traumatically inscribed upon the landscape and its people.