About the Artist

It started in 2008. I was laser scanning buildings up and down the country and I started to notice something. The scanner was also capturing the movement of other subjects in a fascinating way. Pedestrians became morphed or multi-limbed forms, whilst trees and planting had a kind of awe about them. Some of the images were surreal, some strange, but all were very different to what I had previously seen.”

“I became far more interested in this experimental aspect rather than the actual buildings, sometimes deliberately scanning something just to see how it would turn out; Lilies, tree bark, a burnt mattress, even a dog have been scanned to name but a few.”

The artist Graham Everitt was born and bred in Wolverhampton and has been running a surveying business since 2001 using state-of-the-art laser technology to produce 3D models. He has worked for a number of high profile names through his business including Adele, FatBoy Slim and Damon Albarn.

“Once in Glasgow a girl stood right in front of the scanner whilst my back was turned. It wasn’t until later when I was using the scan data that I noticed the appearance of a banshee type image. She became one of the art works. As did a tree stump which resembled a floating glacier, so too my daughter playing the viola. The scanner was placed within a set of swaying branches and the image of a storm was captured.”

The scanner fires out a laser beam at an intense rate whilst rotating through its range. When the beam hits a surface it then returns to the scanner, creating a point with a X, Y, Z coordinate.