A graphic system in quiet dialogue with desire.​​

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For All Kinds of Gorgeous, Murray Clarke’s solo exhibition, we developed an identity that responded to the tension in Clarke’s paintings between seduction and structure – where surface pleasure is meticulously composed, and beauty is both subject and strategy. Clarke’s paintings are tightly composed yet emotionally charged – works that aestheticise desire while holding it at a distance. The identity worked in that same space: elegant, slightly offbeat, and deliberately measured. Visual decisions were led by tone as much as form. A palette of pale green and pink set a distinctive mood, while typographic control and measured pacing shaped the system. Typography played a central role – refined but slightly misaligned, echoing the formal precision and tonal eccentricity of Clarke’s compositions. It suggested elegance without polish, and character without volume.

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Printed materials were pared back and precisely composed. The handout used a full-bleed image as a moment of suspension – not to explain, but to hold the viewer briefly within the work’s logic. That same sense of rhythm, proportion and restraint carried through the identity as a whole. The result was graphic but not decorative – a visual response shaped by the same instincts as Clarke’s paintings: attuned, composed, and deliberately withheld.

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Artist: Murray Clarke

Graphic Art Direction: Billie Temple
Gallery: Nahmad Projects

Installation Photography: Stephen White & Co