Kat Gollock, Zoe Hamill:
Terra Incognita walk 1 – Tweed Loop
26 April 2025, 9:45 – 15:00
Hike & Bike Hub, Galashiels
Through walking, photography, writing and gathering, photographers Zoe Hamill and Kat Gollock seek to create alternative maps of the middle section of the River Tweed by collecting and marking the lesser-heard memories and stories that are housed within its banks and landscapes.
As part of the Galashiels Walking Festival, walkers are invited to gather, photograph and record the ‘overlooked’ and ‘less noticed’ elements they see, hear and experience along the way.
This is followed by a chance to make a cyanotype photograph by the Old Tweed Bridge, that develops in the light as walkers continue the rest of their walk along the banks of the Tweed, to be revealed at the end of their walk at Kingsknowe Hotel. The contributions to this walk form the first ‘collections’ in this alternative mapping project.
This is the first event in Terra Incognita, a new project conceived and delivered by photographers Zoe Hamill and Kat Gollock, and part of the Watery Commons 2025 programme by Connecting Threads.
About the artists
Kat Gollock
Kat Gollock is a photographer based in both Edinburgh and the Scottish Borders. As well as her commercial work, she is a teacher of photography, an exhibited photographic artist, and a published writer on the subject. Her personal work focuses predominantly on landscape and walking, often incorporating text to complement and enhance the images. Inspired by walking the landscape both on her own and with other people, the work she makes is an exploration into our place in the world, the landscape itself and the spaces we inhabit both physically and emotionally.
www.katgollock.com
Zoe Hamill
Zoe Hamill is a photographer from Co. Antrim, now living in Edinburgh. She is interested in the relationship between humans and the environment, as well as the systems of classification that we use to make sense of the world around us. As well as working on her own fine art photography projects, she is a freelance photography educator, archivist and technician where her work involves continued research into alternative processes and plant-based photography developers.
www.zoehamill.com
