Dr Angela Tait

School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies

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Current positions

Lecturer in Fine Art

Biography

Angela Tait is a sculptor, primarily working in the field of expanded ceramics practice, investigating issues of the domestic and creative practice via the universally understood form of the vessel.

Angela holds a PhD from the University of Sunderland: Things that go ‘round: A rhythmanalysis of the relationship between a ceramics practice and domesticity using the form of the vessel.

She is a Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors

Areas of Research

Ceramics
Fine Art
Sculpture
Installation Art
Interdisciplinary practice
Socially Engaged Art
The Domestic
Textile Art
Fine Art pedagogy

Areas of Supervision

Practice Based Fine Art PhDs
Socially Engaged Art
Craft - Theory and practice
Fine art and Feminism
Fine Art and Gender Studies
Fine Art Theory
Sculpture
Textiles in Art
Ceramics

Teaching

Angela has been teaching on the BA (Hons) Fine Art at the University of Salford since 2012. She teaches Fine Art theory, practice and professional development on levels 4-6. Her specialisms are in Feminist theory, craft processes, textiles, sculpture, gender studies, and preparing undergraduate students to teach.

Qualifications and Recognitions

Qualifications
  • PhD Art and Design

    2018 - 2022
  • Post Graduate Diploma in Education

    2010 - 2012
  • MA Contemporary Fine Art

    2008 - 2010
  • BA Visual Arts

    2005 - 2008
  • BSc Financial Services

    1996 - 1998
  • Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers

    1988 - 1996

Publications