# Nina Edge

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{{Short description|English ceramicist, feminist and writer (born 1962)}}
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'''Nina Edge''' (born 1962) is an English ceramicist, feminist and writer.

==Life==
Nina Edge is the daughter of a Ugandan Asian and an Englishman.<ref>[https://www.cultureliverpool.co.uk/nina-edge-the-fall/ Nina Edge: The Fall], ''Culture Liverpool''. Retrieved 21 July 2020.</ref> She trained in [ceramics](/source/ceramics) in [Cardiff](/source/Cardiff), Wales.<ref name="Donnell2002">{{cite book|author=Dipti Bhagat|chapter=Edge, Nina|editor-link=Alison Donnell|editor=Alison Donnell|title=Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VfdpdZ9DwH0C&pg=PA103|year=2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-70025-7|page=103}}</ref>

Edge participated in ''Jagrati'', a 1986 exhibition at [Greenwich Citizens Gallery](/source/Greenwich_Citizens_Gallery) by thirteen Asian women artists.<ref>{{citation|editor-first=Melanie|editor-last=Keen|editor2=Elizabeth Ward|title=Recordings: A Select Bibliography of Contemporary African, Afro-Caribbean and Asian British Art|location=London|publisher=Institute of International Visual Arts and Chelsea College of Art and Design|date=1996}}.</ref> Her mixed-media artwork ''Snakes and Ladders'' (1988) used batik on paper, ceramic and text.<ref name="Chaplin2002">{{cite book|author=Elizabeth Chaplin|title=Sociology and Visual Representation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oe-JAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA150|date=November 2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-90605-5|pages=150–2}}</ref> 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".<ref name="Clare2016">{{cite book|author=Claudia Clare|title=Subversive Ceramics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qKqNCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA26|year=2016|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4742-5797-8|pages=23–26}}</ref>

==Works==
===Exhibitions===
* ''Jagrati'', [Greenwich Citizens Gallery](/source/Greenwich_Citizens_Gallery), London, 1986. With [Dushka Ahmed](/source/Dushka_Ahmed), [Symrath Patti](/source/Symrath_Patti), [Zarina Bhimji](/source/Zarina_Bhimji), [Sutapa Biswas](/source/Sutapa_Biswas), [Chila Kumari Burman](/source/Chila_Kumari_Burman), [Bhajan Hunjan](/source/Bhajan_Hunjan), Naomi Imy, [Mumtaz Karimjee](/source/Mumtaz_Karimjee), [Shamina Khanour](/source/Shamina_Khanour), [Sukhwinder Saund](/source/Sukhwinder_Saund), [Ranjan Shadra](/source/Ranjan_Shadra), and [Shanti Thomas](/source/Shanti_Thomas).<ref>{{cite journal |title='Jagrati: Exhibition by 13 Asian Women Artists' |journal=Artrage |date=Winter 1986 |issue=15 |pages=24–25}}</ref>
* ''Along the Lines of Resistance'', [Cooper Gallery, Barnsley](/source/Cooper_Gallery%2C_Barnsley), 1988. With Simone Alexander, [Sonia Boyce](/source/Sonia_Boyce), [Chila Kumari Burman](/source/Chila_Kumari_Burman), [Leslie Hakim-Dowek](/source/Leslie_Hakim-Dowek), [Lubaina Himid](/source/Lubaina_Himid) & [Maud Sulter](/source/Maud_Sulter), [Lesley Sanderson](/source/Lesley_Sanderson), [Marlene Smith](/source/Marlene_Smith_(artist)), and [Mona Hatoum](/source/Mona_Hatoum).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Beckett |first1=Jane |title='Resistance, Continuity, Struggle' |journal=FAN-Feminist Art News |volume=2 |issue=9 |pages=4–8}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Himid & Maud Sulter |first1=Lubaina |title='Along the Lines of Resistance: Some Contributions from the Exhibition' |journal=FAN: Feminist Art News |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=9–13}}</ref>
* ''Black Art: Plotting the Course'', [Oldham Art Gallery](/source/Gallery_Oldham), Oldham  (and toured to [Camden Arts Centre, London](/source/Camden_Arts_Centre)) 1988. With [Said Adrus](/source/Said_Adrus), [Upjohn Aghaji](/source/Upjohn_Aghaji), [Georgia Belfont](/source/Georgia_Belfont), Donald Brown, Val Brown, [Isaiah Ferguson](/source/Isaiah_Ferguson), [Amanda Holiday](/source/Amanda_Holiday), Carol Hughes, [Wendy Jarrett](/source/Wendy_Jarrett), [Tam Joseph](/source/Tam_Joseph), Godfrey Lee, [Errol Lloyd](/source/Errol_Lloyd), [John Lyons](/source/John_Lyons_(poet)), [Julia Millette](/source/Julia_Millette), [Mowbray Odonkor](/source/Mowbray_Odonkor), [Paul Ogbonno](/source/Paul_Ogbonno), [Eugene Palmer](/source/Eugene_Palmer_(artist)), [Tony Phillips](/source/Tony_Phillips_(British_artist)), Ray Povey, [Jaswinder Singh Purewal](/source/Jaswinder_Singh_Purewal), [Alistair Raphael](/source/Alistair_Raphael), [Lesley Sanderson](/source/Lesley_Sanderson), [Mark Sealy](/source/Mark_Sealy), [Gurminder Sikand](/source/Gurminder_Sikand), Shanti Thomas, and [Jan Wandja](/source/Jan_Wandja).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Currah |first1=Mark |title='Black Art: Plotting the Course' |journal=City Limits |date=1–8 June 1989}}</ref>
* ''A Table of Four'', [Bluecoat Gallery](/source/Bluecoat_Chambers), Liverpool, 1991. With Bhajan Hunjan, [Tehmina Shah](/source/Tehmina_Shah), [Veena Stephenson](/source/Veena_Stephenson),
* ''The Circular Dance'', [Arnolfini, Bristol](/source/Arnolfini%2C_Bristol), 1992. With [Sutapa Biswas](/source/Sutapa_Biswas), [Chila Kumari Burman](/source/Chila_Kumari_Burman), [Jagjit Chuhan](/source/Jagjit_Chuhan), Gurminder Sikand and Shanti Thomas.
* ''Crossing Black Waters'', [City Gallery](/source/City_Gallery_(Leicester)), Leicester, 1992. With [Said Adrus](/source/Said_Adrus), [Allan deSouza](/source/Allan_deSouza), Bhajan Hunjan, [Manjeet Lamba](/source/Manjeet_Lamba), [Shaheen Merali](/source/Shaheen_Merali) and [Samena Rana](/source/Samena_Rana).<ref>{{Cite periodical |last=Sikand|first=Gurminder|date=Summer 1992|title=Crossing Black Waters|periodical=Bazaar|number=21|pages=20–21}}</ref>
* ''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](/source/Harris_Museum), Preston, 1992 . With [Jananne Al-Ani](/source/Jananne_Al-Ani), [Sutapa Biswas](/source/Sutapa_Biswas), [Chila Kumari Burman](/source/Chila_Kumari_Burman), [Sunil Gupta](/source/Sunil_Gupta_(photographer)), [Mona Hatoum](/source/Mona_Hatoum), [Sunil Janah](/source/Sunil_Janah), Mumtaz Karimjee, [Hani Muthar](/source/Hani_Muthar), Gurminder Sikand, [Elia Suleiman](/source/Elia_Suleiman) & [Joyce Salloum](/source/Jayce_Salloum), and Mitra Tabrizian,
* ''Trophies of Empire: New Art Commissions in Bristol, Hull, and Liverpool'', Liverpool, 1992. With [Keith Piper](/source/Keith_Piper_(artist)), [Sunil Gupta](/source/Sunil_Gupta_(photographer)), [Rita Keegan](/source/Rita_Keegan), [Juginder Lamba](/source/Juginder_Lamba), [Shaheen Merali](/source/Shaheen_Merali), [Donald Rodney](/source/Donald_Rodney), Veena Stephenson and [Bandele lyapo](/source/Bandele_lyapo).<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Piper|first1=Keith|title=Trophies of Empire|last2=Tawadros|first2=Gilane|publisher=Liverpool: Bluecoat Gallery;John Moores University School of Design & Visual Arts|year=1994}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=December 1992 – January 1993|title=Images|journal=Spare Rib}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Chambers|first=Eddie|date=December 1991 – January 1992|title=Trophies of Empire|magazine=Art Monthly|number=162|pages=13–15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite periodical |last=Cubitt|first=Sean|date=Spring 1993|title=Going Native: Columbus, Liverpool, Identity and Memory|periodical=Third Text|number=21|pages=107–120}}</ref>
* ''Ethnic Cleansing'', installation at John Moore Gallery, Liverpool, 1994.
* ''Mirage: Enigmas of Race and Desire'', [Institute of Contemporary Arts](/source/Institute_of_Contemporary_Arts) in association with [Iniva](/source/Iniva), 1995. With [Isaac Julien](/source/Isaac_Julien), [Sonia Boyce](/source/Sonia_Boyce), Eddie George, [Trevor Mathison](/source/Trevor_Mathison), [Steve McQueen](/source/Steve_McQueen_(director)), [Keith Khan](/source/Keith_Khan), Susan Lewis and [Ronald Fraser-Munro](/source/Ronald_Fraser-Munro).
* ''[Transforming the Crown](/source/Transforming_the_Crown)'', [Studio Museum in Harlem](/source/Studio_Museum_in_Harlem), 1997.
* ''The Fifth Floor'', [Tate Liverpool](/source/Tate_Liverpool), 2008.
* ''The Shared Habitat'', Granby Winter Garden, Liverpool, 2018.

===Writing===
* "Your Name is Mud", in [Maud Sulter](/source/Maud_Sulter), ed., ''Passion: Discourses on Blackwomen's Creativity''. Hebden Bridge: Urban Fox Press, 1990, pp.&nbsp;154–167.
* [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09528829608576602 "Eight Ways to Speak"], ''[Third Text](/source/Third_Text)'', Vol. 10, No. 34 (Spring 1996), pp.&nbsp;103–107. Review of ''The Seed the Root'', a series of installations and performances in [Brick Lane](/source/Brick_Lane) and [Spitalfields Market](/source/Old_Spitalfields_Market) by [Moti Roti](/source/Moti_Roti)
* "Off Limits: Cultural Participation and Art Education", ''[International Journal of Art and Design Education](/source/International_Journal_of_Art_and_Design_Education)'', Vol. 33, No. 3 (2014), pp.&nbsp;301–12

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.ninaedge.co.uk/ Artist's website]

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