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Annalee Davis
Born1963
St. Michael, Barbados
Occupation(s)Drawing, Painting, Object Making, Art Installation, Video Producer.

Annalee Davis (born 1963) is a visual artist from Barbados whose occupation consists of: drawing, painting, object making, art installation and video production. She works a hybrid practice of jobs as a visual artist, instigator, cultural producer, educator and writer.[1] Davis works on the Intersection of Biography and History, focusing on post-plantation economies by engaging with a particular landscape on Barbados.[2]

Early life and education

Annalee Davis was born in 1963 in St. Michael, Barbados. She spent her childhood growing up on a series of sugar cane plantations- her first home was at the state owned plantation, Graeme Hall in Christ Church, the family then moved to Sandford Plantation in St. Philip and finally to Cliff Plantation in St. John. Her father who was a planter and her mother raised the family of five children. After attending primary and secondary school in Barbados, Davis earned her BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland (1982-1986) and went on to the Mason Gross School for the Arts, Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick campus (1987-1989) where she earned her MFA. On graduating from Rutgers, she returned to Barbados to take up a teaching post at The St. Michael Secondary School (1987-1989).

Career

Davis' more recent work has moved from painting and printmaking into installation and video art, and concerns itself with "post-plantation economies" and the transformation of Barbados from forests to sugarcane farms to a tourist destination. Much of her work uses mixed media installation to explore the Caribbean experience of identity as one that is mitigated by constant migration.[3] Some of her works include To Hang and to Hold (1998 acrylic painting on canvas with galvanized wire) and And Knitting Them Together (1998 painting using acrylics, cotton, and paper on canvas).[4] She has also made work that explores the postcolonial relationship to food production in her native Barbados, in a 2016 performance entitled (bush) Tea Services.' In 2011, Davis founded Fresh Milk, an arts platform and micro-residency program. In 2012 she co-founded Caribbean Linked, an annual residency in Aruba, cohering emerging artists, writers and curators from the Caribbean and Latin America. In 2015, she co-founded Tilting Axis, an independent visual arts platform bridging the Caribbean through annual encounters . From 2016-2018, she was Caribbean Arts Manager with the British Council, developing programming in Cuba, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago and in 2020, she co-founded Sour Grass, a curatorial agency. '[5]

In 1991, Davis left The St. Michael Secondary School to take up a short-term consulting job at the Edna Manley School for the Visual Arts to design a 4-year Printmaking degree program. She then began traveling around the Caribbean meeting fellow artists, becoming part of a larger regional arts community by building relations with her peers in the Anglophone, Hispanophone and Dutch Antilles. In 1992, she was part of a small group of artists agitating for change in the Barbadian arts landscape. Together, they co-founded Representing Artists, an arts collective and union for local artists. She became editor of its quarterly Caribbean arts newsletter RA (Representing Artists) which produced six issues from 1992-1994.[citation needed]

Davis began teaching part-time in the Bachelor of Fine Arts, Visual Arts program at the Barbados Community College from the mid nineties intermittently until 2018.[citation needed]

Personal life

File:Walkers-aerialview.jpg
Aerial view of Walkers Dairy, St. George, Barbados

Davis’ studio is located on a working dairy farm in Barbados which operated historically as a 17th century sugarcane plantation.

References

  1. ^ "Annalee Davis – U.S. Department of State". Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Annalee Davis". art.state.gov. Retrieved 3 August 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ "Annalee Davis by María del Carmen Cossu - BOMB Magazine". bombmagazine.org. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  4. ^ Davis, Annalee (2001). "Coming Home to the Self". Feminist Studies. 27 (2): 459–464. doi:10.2307/3178769. JSTOR 3178769.
  5. ^ Connuck, Jesse. "Recipes Against Colonialism: When Food Becomes Activism". Frieze. No. 205. ISSN 0962-0672. Retrieved 14 March 2020.

Bibliography

  • Veerle Poupeye. Caribbean Art. London; Thames and Hudson; 1998.

Further reading

  • Stephens, Melissa (10 November 2017). Cosmopolitan Creoles and Neoliberal Mobility in Annalee Davis's On the Map. ISBN 9780773552050.
  • This Ground Beneath My Feet - A Chorus of Bush In Rablands– http://rablands.annaleedavis.com
  • TEORé/Tica– https://issuu.com/teoretica/docs/pub_eloc5
  • Lips, Sticks and Marks – Exhibition Catalogue, Group Exhibition at The Art Foundry, Barbados, 1998 Barbados - Annalee Davis, Joscelyn Gardner; Trinidad & Tobago; Susie Dayal, Irenee Shaw; Aruba - Alida Martinez, Osaira Muyale; Jamaica - Roberta Stoddart– https://fcd17b62-2ec4-4ce5-8701-cf90a26cd17a.filesusr.com/ugd/0756e4_67d52404ac4d404c87b8f54ced591d61.pdf


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