Nick Ballón

A cosmic takeover after dark at Piccadilly Circus!

Over the last 15 years artist, designer, filmmaker and friend Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stepanian and I have voyaged across an erratic partnership that has endured through the chaotic and limitless potential of her large-scale projects. We've imagined damage-control of future outer-space catastrophes in Disaster Playground, scoped out the radical and infinite possibilities of creativity in Tour de Moon – I've even become an astronaut exploring far off worlds following Nelly and her Doppelgangers³ – and that's only to name but a few.

Our personalities seemingly exist at opposite ends of the creative spectrum, it's in this dichotomy of order and chaos that the fuel for our best work is found, constantly sparring to find an equilibrium of creative collaboration.

Posted on April 22, 2025