Since the mid-1990s, Steve McPherson has been collecting the trash - plastic, wood, fabric and line - that litters the beaches close to his home on the north-east Kent coastline.

And from 2007 this has provided him with the primary source materials for his practice as an artist. He is at once archaeologist, collector and paradoxical treasure hunter. While it is impossible to ignore the environmental concerns present in his work, he imposes his own aesthetic on the detritus, endowing the apparently mundane with resonance.