About Thom Yorke & Stanley Donwood
Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood became friends at Exeter University, where they both studied English Literature and Fine Art, and first joined forces in 1994 to design the cover for Radiohead’s single My Iron Lung and the band’s second album The Bends. Since then, each Radiohead album has been accompanied by a collaborative visual art project, including the album cover artwork.
In 2021, for the first time in the duo’s 30-year association, Yorke and Donwood began painting a series of artworks together in the studio side by side. As well as providing the cover image for The Smile’s debut album A Light for Attracting Attention (2022), these sessions ultimately spanned two years and resulted in over 20 works that were exhibited to the public for the first time with TIN MAN ART in 2023. More paintings followed for Wall of Eyes (2024) and, latterly, the pair have found these works lend themselves well to reproduction as large-scale tapestries.
Their major retrospective exhibition ‘This Is What You Get’, produced in association with TIN MAN ART and Radiohead, opened at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford in the summer of 2025 and ran to early 2026.