About
Without comparison. On purpose.
Nonesuch Works is an independent creative studio and network: the right creatives, producers, artists and makers, brought together for ideas that need both ambition and the practical know-how to see them through.
nonesuch /ˈnʌnsʌtʃ/ noun
A person or thing without equal.
A nonesuch is a person or thing without equal. It's the name because it's the brief: work made for one place, one audience and one moment, with no obvious precedent and nothing quite like it anywhere else.
A network, not a payroll
Every brief gets its own team, pulled together from a network of creatives, producers, artists, makers and specialists who are ready when the right project comes along.
Some projects need a sculptor and a structural engineer. Others need a strategist, a film crew and a lighting designer. Rather than squeezing every brief through the same in-house team, Nonesuch brings in the people who are genuinely best for that one, chosen for how they think as much as what they make.
That might mean shaping an idea, finding the right artist or specialist, working out how something can actually be made, or running the whole project from concept to install. The through-line is the same: the right people around the work, and the idea kept intact all the way through.
Where it started
Nonesuch Works was founded by Lucy Clarke in response to a gap she kept seeing: between strong creative ideas and the way they're handled once money, timelines and multiple agendas enter the room.
Her background is in communication design, which she trained in at Central Saint Martins, followed by branding, graphic design, artist-led projects and large-scale international production. Over that time she's delivered 30+ large-scale projects for 40+ artists across 8+ countries, with clients including Hyundai, Apple TV, YSL Beauty and the National Lottery.
Along the way she saw creative people brought in for their output while the thinking behind the work got flattened. Nonesuch exists to hold that line more carefully, by putting the right people around every idea and letting them do their best work.
What we believe
Creativity should be handled with care, and the structure around a project should strengthen the work rather than overpower it.
Contact
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