Background
Tait was born and raised in Kirkwall, in the Orkney Islands off the north coast of Scotland.
Tait was born and raised in Kirkwall, in the Orkney Islands off the north coast of Scotland.
Tait attended the, gaining qualifications in Medicine (1941). She later moved to Rome, where she studied filmmaking at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (1950-1952).
She died in Kirkwall in 1999. After studying in Italy, Tait returned to Scotland and founded Ancona Films. On her move back to Orkney in the 1960s, Tait continued to make films and took inspiration from the landscape and culture of Orkney.
Tait made 32 short films and one full-length feature, Blue Black Permanent.
In addition, Tait wrote prose and poetry, and published three poetry books - origins and elements, The Hen and the Bees, and Subjects and Sequences.