The residency (2024) used the path network along the Tweed corridor in the Scottish Borders as a focus. Initiated by Connecting Threads, the residency invited us to walk, explore, research, interact, learn and creatively respond to the habitats, communities (human and more than human), ecology and stories that had evolved around these well trodden routes. 

This time-based exploration aimed to open a space to propose alternative meanings and develop insights that escape conventional appraisal. 

Researching Paths: Documentation

Walk 1
4th June
5 miles

Walk 2
5th June
4 miles

Walk 3
6th June
3.5 miles

Walk 4
7th June
2.85 miles

Walk 5 via Kelso Salmon Fishery Museum. The path westwards along the river was not freely accessible as it passes though the grounds of Floors Castle (entrance to grounds £8)
8th June
1.88 miles

Walk 6 (With River Animateur and members of the Newstead Community Trust)
8th June
3.88 miles

Walk 6
9th June
3.6 miles

Walk 7
9th June
2 miles

Notes: ‘River Culture’ is the relationship we have with the river through the routines, rituals, traditions, beliefs, stories, music, industries and agriculture which connect us to it.