Nic Pehkonen
Image credit: Tommy ClarkBIO
Nic Pehkonen (b. 1969) is an artist and part-time nuclear professional based in Gloucestershire, UK. His creative output is predominantly focussed on the UK’s past, present and future atomic activities, using sculpture, sound, moving image and text to make work on intertwined subjects of power, weapons and waste within the wider context of our cumulative, global nuclear footprint.
He also works under the alias of the Nuclear Information Centre (NIC), a quasi-official sounding organisation and nomadic visitor centre where official and unofficial informational boundaries are frequently blurred, nuclear fact and fiction become actively entangled, and questions of selectivity and trust are tacitly raised.
Although largely self-taught, Nic holds an MA in Fine Art from the University of Gloucestershire.
For enquiries, contact Nic HERE
You can also find Nic’s work on Vimeo, Soundcloud and Instagram too which Nic uses primarily as a “digital sketchbook” but also as an outlet for sharing other nuclear related material, thoughts and information.
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“The Nuclear Information Centre is a space where official and unofficial informational boundaries are intentionally blurred and questions of ambiguity, selectivity and trust are tacitly raised.”
SELECTED RECENT WORK
Four-Minute Warning, 2026. (MP4, Duration 4m 00s)
https://vimeo.com/1197152560
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Ceremonial Radioactive Waste Burial Urns, 2025.
Coppery Skin, 2025. (MP4, Duration 4m 00s)
https://vimeo.com/1116599911
Atmospheric Activities, 2025. (MP4, Duration 6m 00s)
https://vimeo.com/1112643440
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The Half-Life Afterlife, 2024.
NEWS
September 2025: Presented The Half-Life Afterlife and introduced the Nuclear Football at the SafeND 2025 Interdisciplinary Research Symposium in Berlin, hosted by the German Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE).
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RESIDENCIES
The Wilson Art Gallery & Museum, Cheltenham, Artist Bursary Programme.
January-December, 2024.
EXHIBITIONS
(un)told.
The Wilson Art Gallery & Museum, Cheltenham.
January-March, 2025.
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The Matrix of the Not Yet (Virtual Exhibition curated by UAAD (Underground Art & Design, NYC). (May/June 2024).
Deep Time @ Fringe Arts Bath, Newark Works, Bath
(May/June 2024).
Bath Open @ 44AD, Bath
October 2023.
SELECTED AUDIO WORK
Nic Pehkonen (b. 1969) is an artist and part-time nuclear professional based in Gloucestershire, UK. His creative output is predominantly focussed on the UK’s past, present and future atomic activities, using sculpture, sound, moving image and text to make work on intertwined subjects of power, weapons and waste within the wider context of our cumulative, global nuclear footprint.
He also works under the alias of the Nuclear Information Centre (NIC), a quasi-official sounding organisation and nomadic visitor centre where official and unofficial informational boundaries are frequently blurred, nuclear fact and fiction become actively entangled, and questions of selectivity and trust are tacitly raised.
Although largely self-taught, Nic holds an MA in Fine Art from the University of Gloucestershire.
For enquiries, contact Nic HERE
You can also find Nic’s work on Vimeo, Soundcloud and Instagram too which Nic uses primarily as a “digital sketchbook” but also as an outlet for sharing other nuclear related material, thoughts and information.
︎ ︎ ︎
“The Nuclear Information Centre is a space where official and unofficial informational boundaries are intentionally blurred and questions of ambiguity, selectivity and trust are tacitly raised.”
SELECTED RECENT WORK
Four-Minute Warning, 2026. (MP4, Duration 4m 00s)
https://vimeo.com/1197152560
Ceremonial Radioactive Waste Burial Urns, 2025.
Coppery Skin, 2025. (MP4, Duration 4m 00s)
https://vimeo.com/1116599911
Atmospheric Activities, 2025. (MP4, Duration 6m 00s)
https://vimeo.com/1112643440
The Half-Life Afterlife, 2024.
NEWS
September 2025: Presented The Half-Life Afterlife and introduced the Nuclear Football at the SafeND 2025 Interdisciplinary Research Symposium in Berlin, hosted by the German Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE).
RESIDENCIES
The Wilson Art Gallery & Museum, Cheltenham, Artist Bursary Programme.
January-December, 2024.
EXHIBITIONS
(un)told.
The Wilson Art Gallery & Museum, Cheltenham.
January-March, 2025.
The Matrix of the Not Yet (Virtual Exhibition curated by UAAD (Underground Art & Design, NYC). (May/June 2024).
Deep Time @ Fringe Arts Bath, Newark Works, Bath
(May/June 2024).
Bath Open @ 44AD, Bath
October 2023.
SELECTED AUDIO WORK