Nina Edge is a visual artist, writer and urban design activist. Her work includes radical textiles, ceramics, street performance, public art and short films. All her work is informed by her experience as a dual heritage Asian British woman.

Having trained as a ceramicist, Nina has developed a cross media practice that has included textiles, performance, film and public realm work. She became known for using low status craft materials to challenge established hierarchies, participating in gallery exhibitions as part of the political Black British Art movement in the 1980s. Her early career included collaborations with Keith Khan, Maud Sulter, and the Bluecoat Gallery. 

Her practice extends out of the art world into urban design activism and ecological restoration, seen in projects that explode conventions in community art include works in Liverpool’s The Welsh Streets, and Cardiff Bay.

This wide field of interest is united by a focus on power relationships. She references historical global events, current local events using whatever medium best suits the situation. Working both inside and outside of accepted art territory, her practice includes direct interventions in political and civic contexts. This has included the acclaimed ‘Wallpapers For The Dispossessed’ installation on the facade of her home,  and Select Committee evidence on housing, local government and public toilets.

Nina Edge established a socially responsible practice, founding group ceramics studios in Cardiff, and teaching in schools and community centres. She developed both a dockside Carnival band and a walled garden before leaving Wales for Liverpool as Henry Moore Sculpture Fellow.

The cultural crucible of Liverpool saw her create expansive live group interventions outside of galleries in Urban Vimbuzas and street interventions. She presents work on  street surfaces, paving, advertising hoardings and windows, expanding who encounters art. Her use of low status materials and access for audiences continues, as seen regularly in felt pens for drawings on corner shops, curry houses, hospital and public buildings.

Commissioners include Bluecoat, FACT, Wilberforce House Museum, Granby Winter Garden, ICA, Scouse Flowerhouse and Tate Liverpool.

Publications include Artrage, The British Council, Feminist Art News, ICA, i_Jade, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool Biennial, Rooted Zine and Urban Fox

Nina Edge has exhibited in Liverpool, where she lives London, across the UK and internationally. She is currently preparing ceramic work for the forthcoming exhibition Women In Revolt at Tate Britain, in London, Whitworth  Art Gallery in Manchester and National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh.