Malcolm Tait

Malcolm Tait is an artist based in Addlethorpe, Lincolnshire in the UK.

His work is a versatile and eclectic mix of painting, installation and assemblage. This variety stems from his life experience in many occupations which include, publican, mini cab driver, lobster fisherman, factory worker, picture framer, chef.

People have always fascinated him, the choices they make, how they come to hold the views they do, what makes them who they are; in this drive to understand others he found he could only honestly know himself, so all his work is in some larger or smaller way autobiographical reflecting his own experience of life.

His early paintings are primarily in oils but he now paints primarily in acrylics since resuming his practice after a serious illness (IPF), a lung transplant and recuperation from early 2019 - mid 2020. This episode has led to a sharpening of his focus on what he now creates.

Having drawn since he could hold a pencil at the age of four, drawing is an essential element in his practice, the assemblage and making stems from an equally early pleasure of making small clay objects out of mud by a “wee burn” at the age of six in the village of Newcastleton.

As well as drawing the other elements central to his ...

University of Lincoln, BA Fine Art, 2:1 [2002-2006]
Hawick High School, [A long time ago 1968] 5 A-levels.

Recent Exhibitions
July 2023 Ferens Open Exhibition (selected) Ferens Art
Gallery, Hull
Apr. 2022 Annual Open Exhibition (selected) 20-21
Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe
Nov. 2021 "What is Art", Boomer Gallery, Tooley Road,
London (Group Exhibition).
June 2021 “In Search of the Purple Fish” North Sea
Observatory Gallery, Chapel St.Leonards.

Selected Exhibitions
May 2012 : Inugural Exhibition The Embassy Theatre Café
Gallery, Skegness
Dec. 2008 : Temptations, Cuppola Gallery, Sheffield.
May 2008 : Waterside Open Art Exhibition, Lauriston
Gallery, Waterside Arts Centre, Sale,
Manchester.
April 2008: Minor works, The Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk,
Lancashire
Feb. 2008 : South Holland Open, South Holland centre,
Spalding Lincolnshire.
Aug. 2005 : Burden Award Exhibition, Arts Coranti,
Swineshead, Lincolnshire.
May 2005 : Mercury Music Prize Final. Air Gallery, 32
Exhibition Record
Nov 2016 : Retrospective, The Café Gallery, Skegness.,...