Nic Pehkonen
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Forthcoming Exhibition: Nic Pehkonen and Aimee Lax - Nuclear Waste: Myth, Matter and Time
Michael Pennie Gallery, Bath Spa University (Locksbrook Campus)
November 13-27
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Through installation, drawing, film and speculative objects, Nuclear Waste: Myth, Matter and Time examines the currently favoured geological disposal system for home-grown high activity waste within the wider context of our cumulative, global nuclear footprint.
With specific reference to the UK’s still unresolved Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) programme and the recently completed Onkalo repository in Finland as it works to receive its very first waste consignments, the exhibition explores deep time, environmental responsibility and imagined futures whilst drawing attention to some of the key materials associated with geological disposal, including copper and bentonite.
In addition, I’ll be giving an artist talk and leading a screening and discussion event with students around Michael Madsen’s 2010 film, Into Eternity, which follows the construction of Onkalo at the time and raises deeper philosophical questions about our relationship with the nuclear waste we are seeking to bury underground, out of sight but not necessarily out of mind.
There will also be an opening event/private view on Thursday 12 November, 5-8pm to which we extend a warm invitation to anyone who might like to attend.
BIO
Working with fact, fiction, public perception, official information and occasional humour, Nic Pehkonen is a Gloucestershire based artist and part-time nuclear professional whose multidisciplinary practice addresses intertwined subjects of nuclear power, weapons and waste. At a time when talk of a so-called new nuclear golden age is running in parallel with the challenge of managing our existing atomic legacies and ongoing geo-political nuclear tensions, his work seeks to keep a curious and critical eye on our pioneering and problematic relationship with nuclear energy.
He also works under the alias of the Nuclear Information Centre (NIC), a quasi-official sounding organisation and nomadic visitor centre with the aim of creating a partially depersonalised yet artistically fertile framework through which to share his practice.
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 he 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.
RESIDENCIES
The Wilson Art Gallery & Museum, Cheltenham, Artist Bursary Programme.
January-December, 2024.
EXHIBITIONS
September 2025: The Half-Life Afterlife and 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).
(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
Forthcoming Exhibition: Nic Pehkonen and Aimee Lax - Nuclear Waste: Myth, Matter and Time
Michael Pennie Gallery, Bath Spa University (Locksbrook Campus)
November 13-27
Through installation, drawing, film and speculative objects, Nuclear Waste: Myth, Matter and Time examines the currently favoured geological disposal system for home-grown high activity waste within the wider context of our cumulative, global nuclear footprint.
With specific reference to the UK’s still unresolved Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) programme and the recently completed Onkalo repository in Finland as it works to receive its very first waste consignments, the exhibition explores deep time, environmental responsibility and imagined futures whilst drawing attention to some of the key materials associated with geological disposal, including copper and bentonite.
In addition, I’ll be giving an artist talk and leading a screening and discussion event with students around Michael Madsen’s 2010 film, Into Eternity, which follows the construction of Onkalo at the time and raises deeper philosophical questions about our relationship with the nuclear waste we are seeking to bury underground, out of sight but not necessarily out of mind.
There will also be an opening event/private view on Thursday 12 November, 5-8pm to which we extend a warm invitation to anyone who might like to attend.
BIO
Working with fact, fiction, public perception, official information and occasional humour, Nic Pehkonen is a Gloucestershire based artist and part-time nuclear professional whose multidisciplinary practice addresses intertwined subjects of nuclear power, weapons and waste. At a time when talk of a so-called new nuclear golden age is running in parallel with the challenge of managing our existing atomic legacies and ongoing geo-political nuclear tensions, his work seeks to keep a curious and critical eye on our pioneering and problematic relationship with nuclear energy.
He also works under the alias of the Nuclear Information Centre (NIC), a quasi-official sounding organisation and nomadic visitor centre with the aim of creating a partially depersonalised yet artistically fertile framework through which to share his practice.
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 he 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.
RESIDENCIES
The Wilson Art Gallery & Museum, Cheltenham, Artist Bursary Programme.
January-December, 2024.
EXHIBITIONS
September 2025: The Half-Life Afterlife and 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).
(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