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Nils

Aksnes

Disciplines: Photography

Location: Lochgilphead

Materials: Darkroom, Found, Objects, Screenprinting

www.nilsaksnes.com

Nils Aksnes (b. 1987, Salisbury) is a designer, maker and photographic artist living and working on the west coast of Argyll, Scotland. He uses analogue pinhole cameras as a tool for close study of this coastal landscape. His work explores environmental change and draws on found objects and natural materials.

Previous Experience

2026: Holding Conversations, Custom Lane Gallery Society Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition, RSA Building Edinburgh The Thread That Pulls, RSA Building Edinburgh 2025:Layer By Layer (solo exhibition), Island Darkroom, Isle of Lewis Inches Carr Award Showcase, Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh The Art Of Pinhole Photography, Hebelhalle, Heildberg, Germany Argyll Hope Spot Retrospective, Rockfield Centre, Oban, Argyll 2024: Visual Arts Scotland, Now & Then, Dalkieth Palace, Edinburgh Visual Arts Scotland, Then & Now, Royal Scottish Academy Concious & Confusion, Rueff Galleries, Purdue University, Indiana 2023: Colour in the landscape (solo exhibition), Experimental Photo Festival, Institut d’Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya, Barcelona AnalogNOW!, Intercultural center Genazareth, Berlin 2020: Imagining An Island, Taigh Chearsabhagh Arts Centre, North Uist 2019: Artmap Argyll Members Show, The Steamer Terminal, Argyll 2018: Survivor Art Show, Mana Island, Fiji The Pinhole World, Frank’s Bar, Norfolk

Collections

Layer By Layer (2025)

Sonic Obscura (2025)

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