Nina Edge

"Edge makes work on the streets, in shops, bars, allotments and waste-ground and in galleries across the UK. She has appeared as both an invited guest and a gatecrasher at Tate Liverpool, as a representative Black British radical in the Bronx Museum of the Arts, as an immigrant in Hull Ferens at the Trophies of Empire commissions and even as a Welsh presence at Philadelphia’s Painted Bride. She crops up craftily as a ceramicist, carnival designer, and producer of political textiles in the Arnolfini and as a costumier, performer and purveyor of contemporary mass ritual all over Liverpool, notably in her seminal Sold Down The River performance - billed as ‘A Post Betrayal Intervention for a Post Industrial City’ and revisited in her 2012 film of the same name."

"Liverpool artist Nina Edge is renowned for her projects involving local communities. She has developed a keen interest in communicating about the impact of public authorities on private lives and seeks to involve many ‘publics’ in the debate around housing resources, personal freedom and notions of ‘the common good’"

Nina Edge trained as a ceramicist in Cardiff and became known for subversive use of craft processes in shows with Black British artists in the 1980s. Using lowly techniques such as slip trailing, batik, and shisha embroidery she challenged ideas around identity and gender, exposing hierarchies and anomalies in the curation, and funding of cultural projects. Her interest in the status of people, materials and production methods lead to a series of artworks made from international currency, sugar, gold, keys, disposable nappies, and seeds. I really like the idea of challenging identity and gender and the way that she uses sugar, gold and keys etc to make her art work. This is something that I could bring into my own work- I want to start creating art that challenges the way that we see the world, so art based on all of the bad things around us such as war, terror and discrimination.. I suppose I could bring in objects from the particular place of the world.. EG: If i done a piece about Syria I could include objects that have came from there such as a Syrian Qanun (musical instrument)..