Nils Aksnes

Nils' photographic works capture coastal colours of Argyll, Scotland. Many of these colours are not naturally part of this landscape. Plastic waste litters this coastline, brought ashore by Atlantic storms. Bleach bottle blues, algal greens, industrial reds, volcanic greys and vibrant lichen yellows are combined in these images as they are around us. What is natural and what is human made is not easily unpicked in the resulting images.

Nils creates work which evokes the landscape in which it is created, using materials that are to hand. His images are neither of the object, nor the landscape, but instead address the way in which one becomes the other. The materials used to create the image are obscured in the process, leaving the viewer to interpret and decide for themselves the boundary between human made and nature, between waste and beauty.