Liverpool artist, writer and urban-design activist Nina Edge leads a BlackFest visual arts workshop at Granby Winter Garden, bringing together creative practice, material experimentation and decades of engagement with questions of community, identity and the city.
Edge’s work has moved across textiles, ceramics, sculpture, performance, film and public art. That breadth reflects an approach in which the choice of material is shaped by the question being asked rather than by loyalty to a single artistic medium.
Her practice has also been closely connected with the social and political life of Liverpool. Through art and activism, Edge has explored how neighbourhoods are represented, who has power over public space and what communities risk losing when decisions about their environment are made without them.
Historically, her career developed alongside the political Black British Art movement of the 1980s, a period when artists from African, Caribbean and Asian backgrounds challenged the structures of the British art establishment and broadened debates about race, representation, feminism and national identity. Edge is a dual-heritage British Asian artist, so her relationship to that history should be understood within the movement’s wider political use of the term ‘Black’ rather than by describing her as an artist of African or Caribbean heritage.
That context makes the workshop valuable within a Black History Month programme because it opens a window onto a crucial period in modern British art. The Black British Art movement was not a single visual style; it was a network of artists asking who was represented in galleries, whose histories counted and how art could respond to racism and inequality.
At Granby Winter Garden, those larger histories meet a practical creative session. Participants have an opportunity to work directly with an artist whose practice has long blurred boundaries between art, politics and community life.
Part of BlackFest’s 2026 visual arts programme, the three-hour workshop offers a chance to make, discuss and experiment while considering how artistic materials can carry ideas about place, identity and collective memory.
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