Untitled, 2013

In his practice, Everett examines how the idealised image of progress differs from the reality of the resulting objects. One of his main themes concerns the ‘by-products’ of the digital and technological innovations: for his series New Existence he uses images of old-fashioned office items, modernist high-rise buildings and surveillance equipment, as once-upon-a-time symbols of order, efficiency and technological advancement. Everett also like to explore the three-dimensional aspects of his work, made clearly visible in this work by stretching blue tape across the printed image. The physical, tangible nature of the tape contrasts vividly with the sterile, uniform background. The work emphasises the question whether objects, such as telephones that have been optimised for user experience or buildings designed for maximum efficiency, still retain an individual identity, or instead succumb to the uniformity generated by a digital world.