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.
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