Super-Duper Objects (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Tait, A. Super-Duper Objects. [Mixed-Media Ceramics]. Exhibited at Salford Museum and Gallery. 29 April 2023 - 10 September 2023. (Unpublished)

Angela Tait is a sculptor who works primarily in the medium of clay. She is interested in both the sculptural possibilities of ceramics and where it fits into our everyday domestic lives.
In her paper ‘Craft as Aesthetic Position’ (2011), curator a... Read More about Super-Duper Objects.

Like a Bull in a China Shop (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Tait, A., & Knoph, J. Like a Bull in a China Shop. [Mixed Media Sculpture]. Exhibited at Ebor Studios Littleborough. 1 October 2022 - 31 October 2022. (Unpublished)

Jeffrey Knopf is a sculptor whose work considers time and form. He defamiliarizes objects – often relics from museum collections – and represents them through incongruous contemporary materials.
Angela Tait works primarily with clay and the formal q... Read More about Like a Bull in a China Shop.

Smalls (2021)
Exhibition / Performance
Tait, A. Smalls. [Ceramics]. Performed at International Ceramics Festival 2021, Aberystwyth, Wales and Online. 2 July 2021 - 4 July 2021. (Unpublished)

Durational performance over one full day of the International Ceramics Festival 2021.

Smalls is a series of thrown and altered ceramic vessels which build to make an installation.

The COVID Clay Diary (2021)
Exhibition / Performance
Tait, A. The COVID Clay Diary. 1 June 2021. (Unpublished)

An exhibition of ceramic pieces made one per day during the first COVID lockdown in 2020 responding to the personal,social, cultural and political context of each individual day.

The COVID Clay Diary (2021)
Book
Tait, A. (2021). The COVID Clay Diary. Salford, UK: University of Salford

Wednesday 10.38am

I’m afraid...

Well, maybe not afraid, but disconcerted, unsettled, a little
perturbed. The ground beneath my feet feels unstable, a bit like one of those fairground attractions I remember from my childhood
with the slidin... Read More about The COVID Clay Diary.

Northern Willow (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Tait, A., & Clegg, I. Northern Willow. [Ceramic]. Exhibited at The Whitaker Museum and Gallery. 1 November 2019 - 18 March 2020. (Unpublished)

Northern Willow at the Whitaker
A collection of ceramics exploring local identity and value systems in the North West, set against an eclectic and vibrant group of relevant artefacts from the archives of the Whitaker Museum and Gallery.

This... Read More about Northern Willow.

The Urban Moth 2018 (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Tait, A., & Clegg, I. The Urban Moth 2018. [Ceramics mixed media]. 1 January 2018. (Unpublished)

Artist in residence and a solo exhibition at the Manchester Museum.

The urban moth is a response to the collections in the Entomology Department of the museum. The Urban Moth is an entirely fictitious breed of moth that lives in the museum. It res... Read More about The Urban Moth 2018.

The Ceramic Camera (2015)
Digital Artefact
Tait, A., & Clegg, I. (2015). The Ceramic Camera. [Video]

The only ceramic pinhole Polaroid camera known to exist. It was made by Angela Tait and Ian Clegg in 2012 and has been shown in exhibitions and performances throughout the UK and in Italy.

Reciprocity/Reciprocita 2014 (2014)
Exhibition / Performance
Tait, A., & Clegg, I. (2014). Reciprocity/Reciprocita 2014. [Exhibition Catalogue]. 1 January 2014 - 31 December 2014. (Unpublished)

An artists residency in two locations; Salford, UK and Macerata, Italy investigating the Fine Art student population via the use of the world's only ceramic pinhole Polaroid camera.

Resulting outcomes consist of a body of ceramics/photographic pra... Read More about Reciprocity/Reciprocita 2014.

​Hoard : an artists’ book from concept to production
Presentation / Conference
Tait, A. ​Hoard : an artists’ book from concept to production. Presented at Livre D'Artist

Hoard is part artists’ book and part installed sculpture. It functions as a book in that it is a repository for knowledge and a place where discourse can begin.

‘Hoard’ is the culmination of a two year research project in Leeds which started with... Read More about ​Hoard : an artists’ book from concept to production.

Position Open
Exhibition / Performance
Tait, A. Position Open. [Exhibition of ceramics, illustration and Photography]. (Unpublished)

An artists' residency concluding in an exhibition of ceramics, Illustration and photography held in conjunction with the re-opening of Manchester Victoria Station 2015

Things that go ‘round: A rhythmanalysis of the relationship between a ceramics practice and domesticity using the form of the vessel
Thesis
vessel. (Thesis). University of Sunderland

Things that go ‘round: A rhythmanalysis of the relationship between a ceramics practice
and domesticity using the form of the vessel
This research starts from a hypothesis that a ceramics practice undertaken within the home
is interwoven with o... Read More about Things that go ‘round: A rhythmanalysis of the relationship between a ceramics practice and domesticity using the form of the vessel.