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

Life

Nina Edge is the daughter of a Ugandan Asian and an Englishman. She trained in

ceramics A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature. Common examples are earthenware, porce ...

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. Edge participated in 'Jagrati', a 1986 exhibition at Greenwich Citizens Gallery by thirteen Asian women artists. Her mixed media artwork 'Snakes and Ladders' (1988) 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

* 'Jagrati', Greenwich Citizens Gallery, London, 1986. With Dushka Ahmed, Symrath Patti,

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, Bhajan Hunjan, Naomi Imy, Mumtaz Karimjee, Shamina Khanour, Sukhwinder Saund, Ranjan Shadra, and Shanti Thomas. * 'Along the Lines of Resistance', Cooper Gallery, Barnsley, 1988. With Simone Alexander,

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, Leslie Hakim-Dowek,

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, Lesley Sanderson, Marlene Smith, and

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. * 'Black Art: Plotting the Course', Oldham Art Gallery, Oldham (and toured to Camden Arts Centre, London) 1988. With Said Adrus, Upjohn Aghaji, Georgia Belfont, Donald Brown, Val Brown, Isaiah Ferguson, Amanda Holiday, Carol Hughes, Wendy Jarrett,

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, Godfrey Lee,

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, John Lyons, Julia Millette, Mowbray Odonkor, Paul Ogbonno, Eugene Palmer,
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, Ray Povey, Jaswinder Singh Purewal, Alistair Raphael, Lesley Sanderson,
Mark Sealy Mark Sealy (born 1960) is a British curator and cultural historian with a special interest in the relationship of photography to social change, identity politics and human rights. In 1991 he became the director of Autograph ABP, the Associati ...
, Gurminder Sikand, Shanti Thomas, and Jan Wandja. * 'A Table of Four', Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, 1991. With Bhajan Hunjan, Tehmina Shah, Veena Stephenson, * 'The Circular Dance',
Arnolfini, Bristol Arnolfini is an international arts centre and gallery in Bristol, England. It has a programme of contemporary art exhibitions, artist's performance, music and dance events, poetry and book readings, talks, lectures and cinema. There is also ...
, 1992. With
Sutapa Biswas Sutapa Biswas (born 28 November 1962) is a British Indian conceptual artist, who works across a range of media including painting, drawing, film and time-based media. Early life She was born in Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India, in 1962. At the ...
,
Chila Kumari Burman Chila Kumari Singh Burman is a British artist, celebrated for her radical feminist practice, which examines representation, gender and cultural identity. She works across a wide range of mediums including printmaking, drawing, painting, install ...
, Jagjit Chuhan, Gurminder Sikand and Shanti Thomas. * 'Crossing Black Waters', City Gallery, Leicester, 1992 .With Said Adrus, Allan de Souza, Bhajan Hunjan, Manjeet Lamba,
Shaheen Merali Shaheen Merali (born 1959) is a Tanzanian writer, curator, critic, and artist. Merali began his artistic practice in the 1980s committing to social, political and personal narratives. As his practice evolved, he focused on functions of a curator, ...
and Samena Rana. * 'Fine Material for a Dream...?: A Reappraisal of Orientalism: 19th & 20th Century Fine Art and Popular Culture Juxtaposed with Paintings, Video and Photography by Contemporary Artists', Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, 1992 . With Jananne Al-Ani,
Sutapa Biswas Sutapa Biswas (born 28 November 1962) is a British Indian conceptual artist, who works across a range of media including painting, drawing, film and time-based media. Early life She was born in Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India, in 1962. At the ...
,
Chila Kumari Burman Chila Kumari Singh Burman is a British artist, celebrated for her radical feminist practice, which examines representation, gender and cultural identity. She works across a wide range of mediums including printmaking, drawing, painting, install ...
, Sunil Gupta,
Mona Hatoum Mona Hatoum (; born 1952) is a Palestinians, British-Palestinian multimedia and installation artist who lives in London. Biography Mona Hatoum was born in 1952 in Beirut, Lebanon, to State of Palestine, Palestinian parents. Although born in Leba ...
,
Sunil Janah Sunil Janah (17 April 1918 — 21 June 2012) was an Indian-American photojournalist and documentary photographer who worked in India in the 1940s. Janah documented India's independence movement, its peasant and labour movements, famines an ...
, Mumtaz Karimjee, Hani Muthar, Gurminder Sikand,
Elia Suleiman Elia Suleiman (, ; born 28 July 1960) is a Palestinian film director and actor. He is best known for the 2002 film ''Divine Intervention'' (), a modern tragicomedy on living under occupation in Palestine which won the Jury Prize at the 2002 Cann ...
& Joyce Salloum, and Mitra Tabrizian, * 'Trophies of Empire: New Art Commissions in Bristol, Hull, and Liverpool', Liverpool, 1992. With Keith Piper, Sunil Gupta, Rita Keegan, Juginder Lamba,
Shaheen Merali Shaheen Merali (born 1959) is a Tanzanian writer, curator, critic, and artist. Merali began his artistic practice in the 1980s committing to social, political and personal narratives. As his practice evolved, he focused on functions of a curator, ...
,
Donald Rodney Donald Gladstone Rodney (18 May 1961 – 4 March 1998) was a British artist. He was a leading figure in Britain's BLK Art Group of the 1980s and became recognised as "one of the most innovative and versatile artists of his generation." Rodney's wo ...
, Veena Stephenson and Bandele lyapo. * 'Ethnic Cleansing', installation at John Moore Gallery, Liverpool, 1994. * 'Mirage: Enigmas of Race and Desire',
Institute of Contemporary Arts The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is an modernism, artistic and cultural centre on The Mall (London), The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. Located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps a ...
in association with
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, 1995. With
Isaac Julien Sir Isaac Julien (born 21 February 1960Annette Kuhn"Julien, Isaac (1960–)" BFI Screen Online.) is a British installation artist, filmmaker, and Distinguished Professor of the Arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Early life Juli ...
,
Sonia Boyce Dame Sonia Dawn Boyce (born 1962) is a British British African-Caribbean community, Afro-Caribbean artist and educator who lives and works in London. She is a Professor of Black Art and Design at University of the Arts London. Boyce's research ...
, Eddie George, Trevor Mathison,
Steve McQueen Terrence Stephen McQueen (March 24, 1930November 7, 1980) was an American actor. His antihero persona, emphasized during the height of counterculture of the 1960s, 1960s counterculture, made him a top box office draw for his films of the late ...
, Keith Khan, Susan Lewis and Ronald Fraser-Munro. * 'Transforming The Crown',
Studio Museum in Harlem The Studio Museum in Harlem is an African-American art museum at 144 West 125th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. Founded in 1968, the museum collects, preserves and interprets art created by African A ...
, 1997. * 'The Fifth Floor',
Tate Liverpool Tate Liverpool is an art gallery in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and part of Tate, along with Tate St Ives, Cornwall, Tate Britain, London, and Tate Modern, London. The gallery was an initiative of the Merseyside Development Corporatio ...
, 2008. * 'The Shared Habitat', Granby Winter Garden, Liverpool, 2018.

Writing
* 'Your Name is Mud', in
Maud Sulter Maud Sulter (19 September 1960 – 27 February 2008) was a Scottish contemporary fine artist, photographer, writer, educator, feminist, cultural historian, and curator of Ghanaian heritage. She began her career as a writer and poet, becoming a v ...
, ed., ''Passion: Discourses on Blackwomen's Creativity''. Hebden Bridge: Urban Fox Press, 1990, pp. 154–167.
Eight Ways to Speak
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Third Text ''Third Text'' is a leading peer-reviewed academic journal covering art in a global context. After founder and editor Rasheed Araeen's earlier art magazine ''Black Phoenix'', which started in 1978 and published only three issues, ''Third Text' ...
'', Vol. 10, No. 34 (Spring 1996), pp. 103–107. Review of 'The Seed the Root', a series of installations and performances in
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and
Spitalfields Market Spitalfields Market may refer to: * Old Spitalfields Market, a covered market in Spitalfields, just outside the City of London * New Spitalfields Market New Spitalfields Market is a fruit and vegetable market on a site in Leyton, London Borough ...
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

External links

Artist's website
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