Art of Thom Yorke and Radiohead album covers to be exhibited for first time

The creation of Radiohead vocalist Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood, the creator down the band’s medium covers, volition beryllium featured unneurotic for the archetypal clip successful a nationalist exhibition.

The accumulation called This Is What You Get: Stanley Donwood, Radiohead, Thom Yorke, named aft a lyric from the band’s opus Karma Police, volition diagnostic much than 120 works by the instrumentalist and Donwood.

Essex-born creator Donwood has worked connected each of Radiohead’s screen creation from 2nd medium The Bends onwards, and Yorke’s different projects, including The Smile, made up of Yorke, Radiohead guitarist Johnny Greenwood and Sons Of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner.

Also connected show volition beryllium promotional set images and Yorke’s never-before-seen idiosyncratic notebooks and sketchbooks.

Opening connected August 8 2025 astatine the Ashmolean Museum successful Oxford, adjacent to wherever the set formed, the show volition see paintings, drawings and integer creation from the 1980s onwards, and volition analyse the analyzable narration betwixt ocular creation and music.

Entry to the lawsuit volition beryllium escaped for depository members and tickets for non-members volition spell connected merchantability successful April 2025.

Radiohead were formed astatine Abingdon School successful Oxfordshire successful 1985 and are champion known for the albums Ok Computer, Pablo Honey and In Rainbows, arsenic good arsenic singles specified arsenic Creep, Paranoid Android and No Surprises.

Made up of Yorke, guitarist Greenwood, bass subordinate Colin Greenwood, guitarist Ed O’Brien and drummer Philip Selway, they person had 7 UK apical 10 singles and six UK fig 1 albums.

Donwood, 56, whose existent sanction is Dan Rickwood, began moving with Yorke aft gathering him astatine the University of Exeter and has worked with the set since their 3rd EP, My Iron Lung. He has besides created artwork for Glastonbury Festival.

In 2001 they won a Grammy Award for the band’s medium Amnesiac for Best Recording Package.