Tue 19 May, 5.30-7.30pm
Reflecting on four decades as an artist, Nina Edge is joined by art historian and curator Alice Correia and the Bluecoat’s Bryan Biggs to discuss her long engagement with the arts centre.
The panel will consider the development of Edge’s art as reflected through the archive, from early shows at the Bluecoat to inclusion in Tate Britain’s Women in Revolt. The challenge of documenting such a broad multidisciplinary art practice will be addressed alongside wider questions about how art histories are made and what is excluded from them.
Event supported by DACS whose grant has enabled Edge to develop her own archive, and The National Archives.
Free, booking required
About the artists
Nina Edge trained as a ceramicist becoming known for subversive use of materials and visual language with Black British artists in the 1980s. She went on to produce textiles, street events, public art, performance and film. Her practice engages with urban and rural communities. Exhibitions include Mirage (ICA, London, 1995), Transforming the Crown (Studio Museum, Harlem, 1997), The Fifth Floor (Tate Liverpool, 2008), The Shared Habitat (Granby Winter Garden, Liverpool, 2018), and Women in Revolt: Art, Activism and the Women’s Movement in the UK 1970 – 1988 (Tate Britain, National Galleries Scotland, and The Whitworth, Manchester, 2023-25). She is published by Third Text, International Journal of Art & Design Education, Feminist Art News, the British Council, and Liverpool University Press.
Alice Correia is an art historian and curator specialising in late twentieth-century British art, with a focus on Black and South Asian diaspora artists and feminist and de-colonial practices. Her edited book, What is Black Art?: Writings on African, Caribbean and Asian Artists in Britain, 1981-1989, was published by Penguin in 2022. She has published articles and exhibition catalogue essays on artists including Chila Kumari Burman, Jasleen Kaur and Barbara Walker. Her chapter ‘Representing South Asian Women in Britain’, was included in the catalogue for Women in Revolt: Art, Activism and the Women’s Movement in the UK 1970 – 1988, Tate Britain, and touring, 2023-25.
Archives Revealed is the only grant programme in the United Kingdom (UK) dedicated to the cataloguing and unlocking of archival collections. The programme is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Pilgrim Trust, the Wolfson Foundation and The National Archives. The goal of Archives Revealed is to ensure that significant archive collections, representing the lives and perspective of all people across the UK, are made accessible to the public for research and enjoyment.
