"Yorke, who is most famous as Radiohead's lead vocalist and songwriter, met the multidisciplinary artist Donwood at art college, in Exeter, in the nineteen-eighties. Displeased with the image that the record label had chosen for Radiohead's début album, "Pablo Honey," Yorke asked Donwood to collaborate on the art for their next project. Since then, the duo has maintained control over all of the band's visual content, producing art works for every album, as well as for Yorke's solo projects."
""This Is What You Get" draws on a vast archive of objects and images from the mid-nineties to the present day. The show is not a history of Radiohead but an exploration of the art that helped define the band's music, and which was often integral to the experience of being a fan. (Example: a booklet of art work concealed inside the walls of every "Kid A" CD case, accessible only by cracking it open.)"
A low table was scattered with half-drunk cups of tea while Yorke's wife, Dajana, read a Murakami novel and a bartender pulverized ice. Since 2021 Yorke and Donwood have been represented by Tin Man Art and have staged six joint exhibitions of archival and new works. Yorke met Donwood at art college in Exeter in the nineteen-eighties and recruited Donwood after being displeased with the label's image choice for Pablo Honey. The duo has maintained control of Radiohead's visual content, producing artwork for every album and for Yorke's solo projects. The "This Is What You Get" show draws on a vast archive from the mid-nineties to the present and explores the art that helped define the band's music and fan experience; many sketchbook drawings became iconic insignia and were hidden in packaging such as a booklet inside Kid A CD cases.
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