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Life
Tait attended the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts School of Art and Design from 1949 to 1953, completing an undergraduate degree. Her instructors included Arthur Lismer, Jacques de Tonnancour, Marian Scott, Eldon Grier, Gordon Webber and William Armstrong. She married artist and poet Grier in 1954. He had long-standing connections in Mexico (including with Diego Rivera) and they spent extended periods in San Miguel de Allende in the late 1950s. They moved to British Columbia in 1968 and Tait set up her studio in West Vancouver.

Publications
Tait collaborated with her husband Eldon Grier and with John Huberman in the design and illustration of several books, including:
 * Grier, Eldon. The Ring of Ice: Poems. Montreal: Cambridge Press, 1957. Graphics by Sylvia Tait.
 * Grier, Eldon. A Friction of Lights. Toronto: Contact Press, 1963; London: Poets' and Painters' Press. Dust jacket designed by Sylvia Tait.
 * Grier, Eldon. Pictures on the Skin: Poems. Montreal: Delta Canada, 1967. Drawings and collages by Sylvia Tait.
 * Huberman, John and Sylvia Tait. For a lark : a remedial fieldguide for confused birdwatchers. Vancouver: J. Huberman, c1974.
 * Grier, Eldon. The Assassination of Colour. Fredericton, N.B.: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1978. Cover by Sylvia Tait. ISBN: 0920110606