Nina Edge
Nina Edge is an English ceramicist, feminist and writer.Life
Nina Edge is the daughter of a Ugandan Asian and an Englishman. She trained in ceramics in Cardiff.
Edge participated in 'Jagrati', a 1986 exhibition at Greenwich Citizens Gallery by thirteen Asian women artists. Her mixed media artwork 'Snakes and Ladders' used batik on paper, ceramic and text. Part of the touring exhibition 'Along the Lines of Resistance', it "brought social politics into craft and images of black women into mainstream art galleries and museums".Works
Exhibitions
- 'Trophies of Empire', Liverpool, 1992
- 'Ethnic Cleansing', installation at John Moore Gallery, Liverpool, 1994.
- 'Mirage: Enigmas of Race and Desire', Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1995.
- 'Transforming The Crown', Studio Museum in Harlem, 1997.
- 'The Fifth Floor', Tate Liverpool, 2008.
- 'The Shared Habitat', Granby Winter Garden Liverpool, 2018.
Writing
- 'Your Name is Mud', in Maud Sulter, ed., Passion: Discourses on Blackwomen's Creativity. Hebden Bridge: Urban Fox Press, 1990, pp.154–167.
- , Third Text, Vol. 10, No. 34, pp.103–107. Review of 'The Seed the Root', a series of installations and performances in Brick Lane and Spitalfields Market by Moti Roti
- 'Off Limits: Cultural Participation and Art Education', International Journal of Art and Design Education, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp.301–12
