Annalee Davis works at the intersection of biography and history, focusing on post-plantation economies by engaging with a particular landscape on Barbados. Her work addresses plantation’s residue through the landscape it irrevocably altered and its continued impact on the contemporary environment and, crucially, begins to imagines how to form more intimate relationships with landscapes so heavily mediated by centuries of a sugar monoculture and the more recent tourist economies. Davis completed a residency recently at the DCA as part of her one-year commission with the National Trust for Scotland's Facing our Past programme. Through drawing, making (bush) teas, and growing living apothecaries, her practice suggests future strategies for repair and thriving while investigating the role of botanicals and living plots as alternative sites of refusal, counter-knowledge, community, and healing.

This conversation is chaired by Professor Alison Donnell (UEA)

For more on Annalee Davis's work visit: https://annaleedavis.com/