Stanley Donwood

 
Stanley Donwood has worked with Radiohead since 1994, designing the group’s album and all associated artwork gaining him worldwide recognition.  Working with the band on their second album ‘The Bends’ onwards, his evocative and haunting imagery has helped to create one of music’s most distinctive brands.  In 2006, the release of Thom Yorke’s ‘Eraser’ record brought Stanley’s very distinctive artwork ‘London Views’ into the public eye once again. As an artist he veers from propagandist graphics to introspective illustrations, but a consistent strength is his combination of deep personal and political emotions with modesty and humour; weighty subjects examined not entirely seriously but certainly respectfully. Notoriously reclusive, Stanley himself doesn't pander to the disingenuous media trend for grandeur, and like many intelligent creatives operating in such a conceited sphere, cannot resist underselling himself. Stanley is recognised as one of the UK’s ‘popular contemporary’ artists and has exhibited his gallery art to an international fan base, including galleries in Europe, Asia and the US.

Artwork for Radiohead; 1994 - present [Includes all record sleeves, website merchandise etc]

Exhibitions:
No Data; f stop gallery, Bath, 1997
No Data; Watershed media centre, Bristol, 1998
London Views; Lazarides Gallery, London, 2006
Dead Children Playing; Iguapop Gallery, Barcelona, 2006
Department of Reclusive Paranoia; VIPs Gallery, Rotterdam, 2007
If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now; Lazarides Gallery, London, 2007
I LOVE THE MODERN WORLD; Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, 2008
Printed Paper; Ink’d Gallery, Brighton, 2009
EL CHUPACABRA, Weapon of Choice Gallery, Bristol, 2009
Red Maze, Schunck, Heerlen, Holland, 2010
OVER NORMAL, Fifty24SF Gallery, San Francisco, 2010
Palimpsest, Mondo Bizzarro Gallery, Rome, 2010
Work on Paper, The Outsiders Gallery, London, 2011
The Minotaur, Old Vic Tunnels, London, 2011

Read our interview with Stanley Donwood here