Nick Veasey The Fly Away For Sale
Nick Veasey
The Fly Away
Framed Chromaluxe
55 x 24 Inches | Additional size available upon request
About this work
Nick Veasey has established himself as the foremost artist working with X-ray technology, transforming scientific imaging into a distinctive visual language that reveals the hidden architecture of everyday objects. His work resides in major collections worldwide and has been exhibited extensively across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, cementing his position as a singular voice in contemporary photography. Veasey's process requires extraordinary technical precision—each image demands careful calibration of radiation levels and exposure times, often involving industrial-grade equipment typically reserved for security scanning and medical diagnostics. The Fly Away presents one of Veasey's most ambitious compositions, depicting the skeletal framework of an aircraft rendered in his signature X-ray aesthetic. The work strips away the familiar exterior of aviation to expose the engineering beneath—the intricate lattice of structural supports, mechanical systems, and geometric forms that enable flight. At 55 by 24 inches, the elongated horizontal format emphasizes the vessel's aerodynamic silhouette while allowing viewers to examine the density of detail Veasey captures within each section of the fuselage. Presented as a framed Chromaluxe print, the work benefits from the medium's exceptional color saturation and archival stability, ensuring the subtle gradations of Veasey's radiographic imagery maintain their clarity and depth. As an edition of 25, The Fly Away offers collectors entry into a controlled body of work by an artist whose market presence continues to strengthen as institutions and private collectors recognize the lasting significance of his contributions to photographic practice. For acquisition inquiries, please contact Guy Hepner, New York.
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- Framed Chromaluxe
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- Edition of 25
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About the X-Ray Works Series
Nick Veasey works across several distinct series, each applying his signature X-ray process to a different corner of the world we inhabit but rarely truly see.
His automotive works are among his most celebrated. Ferraris, Porsches, Land Rovers, and Volkswagen Campers are rendered in full radiographic detail, their engines, frames, and mechanical anatomy laid bare without a body panel in sight. These are not photographs of cars. They are portraits of what a car actually is underneath everything we are sold about it.
His collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum to X-ray Balenciaga couture produced some of the most forensically beautiful fashion images ever made. Garments that took hundreds of hours to construct are revealed stitch by stitch, their internal architecture as compelling as their exterior. His human figures carry the same quality — skeletal forms dressed, posed, and placed in scenes that are simultaneously clinical and deeply human.
A separate but equally significant strand of his practice uses lenticular printing — a ribbed lens technology that shifts the image depending on the viewing angle — to create works that move and transform as you walk past them. Clark Kent becomes Superman. A bartender shakes a cocktail. Batman and Superman collide. These pieces introduce humor, narrative, and kinetic energy into a practice that is otherwise defined by stillness.
His most recent series marks a departure into color. Silver silkscreen printed directly onto colored acrylic, the SilXscreens retain the X-ray aesthetic while introducing a vibrancy and warmth that opens the work to a new register entirely.
Flora, fauna, musical instruments, shoes, typewriters, and household objects appear throughout his catalog, each one transformed by the X-ray process from the familiar into something worth looking at properly for the first time. A flower becomes a diagram of itself. A pair of headphones becomes a study in engineering. The ordinary, made extraordinary simply by being seen from the inside out.
About Nick Veasey
Nick Veasey is a British artist born in London in 1962 whose practice occupies a space that no other artist has claimed quite so completely. Working from a custom-built, radiation-proof studio in Kent, England, he uses industrial X-ray equipment to expose the hidden interior of the world around us — cars, fashion, animals, instruments, the human body — producing images of extraordinary detail and haunting beauty that sit equally at home in science institutions and major fine art galleries.
His entry into the medium came by chance in 1996, when he was asked to X-ray a cola can for a television production. On the same day, he X-rayed the shoes he was wearing and showed the results to an art director. The response was immediate and galvanizing, and Veasey has never looked back. What followed was decades of relentless experimentation, collaboration with scientists, and the construction of a working practice that is as technically complex as it is visually compelling.
The work carries real conceptual weight. In a culture consumed by surface — by image, by appearance, by the carefully managed exterior — Veasey does the opposite. He strips it away entirely, revealing the inner architecture of things we think we know and exposing a beauty that exists only when the surface is removed. His X-rays do not create or transform. They reveal what was always there. The range of his subjects is broad and deliberate. Iconic automobiles including Ferrari and Porsche, Balenciaga couture from the Victoria and Albert Museum's permanent fashion collection, military hardware, musical instruments, flowers, and the human skeleton have all passed through his lead-lined studio. Each subject is treated with equal precision and equal curiosity. The result, across all of it, is work that manages to be simultaneously scientific and lyrical, factual and deeply strange.
His prints are produced on Chromaluxe, Diasec, and lenticular formats and issued in strict limited editions. His work has been acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum as part of the British National Collection of Photography and has been exhibited across Europe, North America, and Asia. He is the recipient of awards from the IPA Lucie Awards, AOP, D&AD, Graphis, and Communication Arts, and was nominated for IPA Lucie International Photographer of the Year in 2008. Commercial collaborations have included Nike, Levi's, Adobe, Adidas, the BBC, and Porsche. His most recent work includes the SilXscreens series — silver silkscreen on colour acrylic — marking a significant new direction into colour after a practice long defined by monochromatic imagery.