Nick Veasey: The Automobile X-Ray Project

Nick Veasey

Nick Veasey was born in Great Britain in 1962. He has dedicated his artistic endeavor and expression to creating x-ray imagery for over 20 years. Veasey has x-rayed an uncounted number of objects at his own x-ray studio using the traditional x-ray technology as invented by the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in 1895. 

What makes his art unique is not only his technique. Instead of interpreting, creating, or transforming things, Veasey shows us the inner "life" of objects. Creating art with radiation is very complex and dangerous, but the amazing results have inspired Veasey to keep experimenting. With time, he chose larger objects like cars and planes, which had to be taken apart. In 2009, Veasey made his first x-ray of an automobile, a Mini (see image here). The process then required the total dismantling of the car, so each part could get x-rayed individually. Then, all the x-rayed elements had to be digitally reconstructed together again.  The opportunity Veasey had with working at the Frauenhofer Development Center for X-Ray Technology EZRT in Fürth Germany, allowed him to take his x-raying art to yet another level. Veasey has always been fascinated by the normally hidden, inner mechanism of machinery, particularly automobiles.


Read more about Nick Veasey and his other works here.