Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Kat Gollock during the week in which she was due to launch a new body of work at Stills as part of the Projects 20 exhibition series. Gollock was recently awarded the Jill Todd Photographic Award Bursary 2019-20. She has been working as a photographer, predominantly of portraiture, events and live performance, since graduating from Edinburgh Napier University with 1st Class Honours in 2011. She teaches photography, is an exhibited photographic artist and is a published writer on the subject. Her creative work focuses predominantly on landscape where she often incorporates text to compliment and enhance the images. Her work is often made in response to her own experiences and the environment around her, drawing on experiences of growing up a in a rural area but, now, being hugely embedded in city culture. Gollock uses her practice as a way to try and understand where she's come from and where she's going and how that fits into the world around her.

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