Erlend Tait is a Visual Artist from the North of Scotland. In 1996 he received his BA Hons. in Fine Art from Gray’s School Of Art where he specialised in Drawing & Painting. After graduating he moved to Edinburgh to work in one of Scotland’s leading stained glass studios to learn the ancient techniques of the glass painter-stainer. Now both traditions of oil painting and stained glass inform his artistic practice, combining portraits of imagined people with pattern and symbolism.
Erlend exhibits his drawings, paintings and stained glass internationally and lives on the Black Isle with his wife, the artist Pamela Tait with whom he also collaborates and exhibits.
In 2020 he was elected a Professional Member of the Society of Scottish Artists.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 ‘Aetherness’ - Outré Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2020 ‘Of Land And Sea’ - Outré Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2019 ‘Imaginary Friends’ - FB69 Gallery Münster, Germany
2016 ‘Path Of Most Resistance’ - FB69 Gallery Cologne, Germany
JOINT EXHIBITIONS WITH PAMELA TAIT
2022 ‘A Portrait Of Mairi Sawyer’ - The Sawyer Gallery, Inverewe Gardens
2022 ‘Hidden Harmonies’ - The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
2019 ‘Refractor’ The Meffan Gallery, Forfar
2018 ‘Roots’ - St Fergus Gallery, Wick
2017 ‘Tales From The North’ - An Tobar, Mull
2014 ‘Forgotten Land’ - FB69 Gallery Cologne, Germany
2013 ‘Pamela & Erlend Tait’ - Browns Gallery, Tain
2013 ‘Duologue’ - Glasgow Institute Kelly Gallery, Glasgow
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 ‘Popland 4’ - KochxBos Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023 ‘Don’t Wake Daddy XVIII’ - Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
2023 ‘P.S 8’ - Nucleus Portland, Oregon, USA
2023 ‘Vanguard’ - Outré Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2023 ‘Small Works’ - Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2023 ‘Popland 3’ - KochxBos Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023 ‘Supersonic Faces & Figures’ - SupersonicArt.com
2023 ‘Layer By Layer’ - FADZ, Lichtenfels, Germany
2023 ‘Renewal’ - wowxwow.com
2022 ‘Power In Numbers 7’ - Nucleus Portland, Oregon, USA
2022 ‘Inaugural Group Exhibition’ - Browns Gallery, Inverness
2022 ‘Die Vögel/The Birds’ - Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
2021 ‘Don’t Wake Daddy XVI’ - Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
2021 ‘Power In Numbers 6’ - Nucleus Portland, Oregon, USA
2021 ‘Now You See Me, Now You Don’t’ - Orangerie, Munich, Germany
2021 ‘Vanguard’ - Outré Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2021 ‘A Space Between’ - (moving image) Society of Scottish Artists
2021 ‘Contemporary Figures’ - Society of Scottish Artists
2021 ‘Walpurgis’ - Dog & Pony Gallery, Munich, Germany
2021 ‘Ritual Deluxe’ - wowxwow.com
2020 ‘Don’t Wake Daddy XV’ - Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
2020 ‘#SeeHerPlay’ - FB69 Gallery, Münster, Germany
2020 ‘Spring Exhibition’ - The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
2019 ‘Don’t Wake Daddy XIV’ - Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
2019 ‘Utopia – What’s Yours?’ - Society of Scottish Artists
2019 ‘Vanguard’ - Outré Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2018 ‘Don’t Wake Daddy XIII’ - Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
2018 ‘Found’ - An Tobar, Isle of Mull
2018 ‘Winter Exhibition’ - Compass Gallery, Glasgow
2018 ‘Twenty-five And Counting’ - 25th Anniversary, Brown’s Gallery, Tain
2017 ‘Look Up To The Sky And See’ - FBB69 Gallery, Münster, Germany
2017 ‘Winter Show’ - Compass Gallery, Glasgow
2017 ‘Room Of A Thousand Doors’ - wowxwow.com
2017 ‘Lightning Bolts & Little Sparks’ - wowxwow.com
2017 ‘A Change Of Seasons’ - Compass Gallery, Glasgow
2017 ‘London Art Fair’ - with Compass Gallery
2016 ‘Popsurrealism’ - FB69 Cologne, Germany
2016 ‘Winter Collection’ - Compass Gallery
2015 ‘Twenty-One And Counting’ - Brown’s Gallery, Tain
2015 London Art Fair - with Compass Gallery
2014 ‘Cabinet Show: Small Treasures’ - Compass Gallery, Glasgow
2014 ‘Spring Exhibition’ - Tolquhon Gallery, Aberdeenshire
2014 ‘Crows Are Following Us’ - FB69 Gallery, Münster, Germany
2011 ‘Feminality Couples’ - The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2011 ‘Apartness’ - Recoat Gallery, Glasgow
2009 ‘Winter Show’ - Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire
2009 ‘Fabric of the Land’ - University of Aberdeen
2007 ‘Reflections from the Well’ - An Tobar 10th Anniversary, Mull
2007 ‘Drawing’ - Mansfield Park Gallery, Glasgow
ANNUAL EXHIBITIONS
2007-09, 2013-14, 2018, 2024 Royal Scottish Academy
2007-08, 2010-12, 2016 Royal Glasgow Institute
2011-15, 2018 Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour
2007-12, 2014-15 Aberdeen Artists Society
2010-11, 2018-20 Society of Scottish Artists
2011, 2016, 2019, 2020 Visual Arts Scotland
2011-12 Paisley Art Institute
2009, 2011 Scottish Drawing Competition, Paisley Museum & Art Gallery
2006-07 The Aspect Prize, Paisley Museum & Art Gallery
2008 Royal Society of Portrait Painters, London
2006 Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, London