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“It feels like just last year we were standing in HMV in Oxford thinking about how we were going to do a record sleeve and now we’re doing a museum show in pretty much the same spot,” says Stanley Donwood, the artist who is considered the sixth member of the British band Radiohead.

That first album sleeve, of a gasping resuscitation dummy, was created 30 years ago for The Bends and now Donwood (whose real name is Dan Rickman) and Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke are due to have their first institutional show, opening next August at the Ashmolean Museum in the band’s hometown of Oxford. Titled This is What You Get, a lyric from the wildly popular song Karma Police, the exhibition will include most of Radiohead’s album art from the past three decades, as well never publicly seen archives of sketchbooks, notebooks and faxed correspondence between Yorke and Donwood. Paintings and other works created for Yorke’s solo projects and his offshoot band, The Smile, are also due to go on show.

Donwood—who is now based in Brighton after finding Bath had become “too boring”—and Yorke first met at the University of Exeter where they were studying fine art and English literature. Rather than the paint-splattered studios of the art department, both were drawn to the smart graphic design department and its burgeoning technologies of the time. “We spent most of our time in graphic design, because that’s where they had a couple of those tiny little Apple Mac computers,” Donwood recalls.

Read more: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/11/22/radioheads-thom-yorke-and-stanley-donwood-to-have-first-museum-exhibition-in-oxford-next-summer

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