Nina Edge

Nina Edge (born 1962) is an English ceramicist, feminist and writer.

Life

Nina Edge is the daughter of a Ugandan Asian and an Englishman.^[1] She trained in ceramics in Cardiff.^[2]

Edge participated in 'Jagrati', a 1986 exhibition at Greenwich Citizens Gallery by thirteen Asian women artists.^[3] Her mixed media artwork 'Snakes and Ladders' (1988) used batik on paper, ceramic and text.^[4] 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".^[5]

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.
Eight Ways to Speak, Third Text, Vol. 10, No. 34 (Spring 1996), 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 (2014), pp.301–12

References

^ Nina Edge: The Fall, Culture Liverpool. Accessed 21 July 2020.
^ Dipti Bhagat (2002). "Edge, Nina". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. p. 103. ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7.
^ Melanie Keen & Elizabeth Ward, eds., Recordings: A Select Bibliography of Contemporary African, Afro-Caribbean and Asian British Art, London: Institute of International Visual Arts and Chelsea College of Art and Design, 1996.
^ Elizabeth Chaplin (November 2002). Sociology and Visual Representation. Routledge. pp. 150–2. ISBN 978-1-134-90605-5.
^ Claudia Clare (2016). Subversive Ceramics. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 23–26. ISBN 978-1-4742-5797-8.

External links

Artist's website

[1] Nina Edge: The Fall, Culture Liverpool. Accessed 21 July 2020.

[Donnell2002-2] Dipti Bhagat (2002). "Edge, Nina". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. p. 103. ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7.

[3] Melanie Keen & Elizabeth Ward, eds., Recordings: A Select Bibliography of Contemporary African, Afro-Caribbean and Asian British Art, London: Institute of International Visual Arts and Chelsea College of Art and Design, 1996.

[Chaplin2002-4] Elizabeth Chaplin (November 2002). Sociology and Visual Representation. Routledge. pp. 150–2. ISBN 978-1-134-90605-5.

[Clare2016-5] Claudia Clare (2016). Subversive Ceramics. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 23–26. ISBN 978-1-4742-5797-8.

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