Alison Chapman-Andrews is the 2006 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award in the Visual Arts.

Plantation Door
Alison Chapman-Andrews, 55” x 33” acrylic, 1985 (BIDC collection)

Set at Dunscombe Plantation. The height of royal palms was achieved by contrasting them to the small figures. This is the only one of my landscapes that includes figures, and they started off being for reasons of scale. The lorry defines the space of the “door,” half of it seen, half still hidden. A woman labourer sits on the lorry bed, a reference to a controversy at this time over how plantations transported female workers.—ACA