About
Nina Edge is an artist, maker and writer.
Her work can be seen at Granby Winter Garden in the form of a crystal chandelier, The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, who purchased a couple of large pigment paintings and Cartwright Hall who have a huge batik.
Outdoor pieces have been commissioned by Cardiff Bay Arts Trust, Oldham Council and the Irwell Sculpture Trail resulting in a ceramic garden, a steel screen, and a tower with a glass eye, all produced in collaboration with young people. She has worked in materials ranging from batik, ceramic, drawings, embroidery, print, film sculpture and textiles. Urban design campaigns, lead to her working with renown projects like Scouse Flowerhouse, Squash, FACT, Bluecoat and Tate Liverpool.
She is currently making an archive with support from Design Artists Copyright Society (DACS)
The online shop includes work made from 1985 and recently shown by Tate Britain, right up to 2026 when roller drawings, prints and paintings have been in production. Most of the listed pieces are from a pigment painting series made during lockdown which range from A5 to A0 + in size, and can be printed to order in different sizes and sent almost anywhere.
Original work is listed by medium. Prints are made to order by fine art printer Klein on archive quality Hahnemuhle paper. The painted work was made with dye pigments on Bockingford Watercolour paper, during lockdown. These are printed to order as fine art prints on archive quality Hahnemuhle paper. The colour accuracy of the prints is visible at Lock and Key Hotel Bar 15 - 15 Duke Street, Liverpool where the originals are indistinguishable from the prints.
The historic work was uploaded after gaining a new following via the 2023 exhibition "Women In Revolt' at Tate Britain, National Museums Scotland and Whitworth. This includes the artist's well known batik image 'Snakes and Ladders' as seen on the cover of Maud Sulter's book 'Passion' and in numerous art publications. There are also four collaged drawings in the Tate series. All of this work had disappeared from sight and was restored and recirculated as a result of curatorial research.
October 2026 sees the well supported Blackfest Exhibition at The Royal Liver Building - designed by Edge and installed by the participating artists. All involved are thanked for their magical spectacle this exhibition brings to the soaring atrium space by the river. All works are for sale, exhibition closes 30th October.
More information is available in published academic research and at www.ninaedge.co.uk
instagram @ninaedge7
Nina Edge in the installation Bonus Ball at ICA London 1995. Photography Robert Taylor, staging Keith Khan of the Franz Fanon series of commissions.