Thom Yorke & Stanley Donwood
Digging Luxury Caves in Picturesque Hills, 2026
Signed
silkscreen on agawami washi kitakata select 90gsm
42 x 35 cm
Edition of 44 (the original work is currently on show at our Venice Biennale exhibition: 'No Go Elevator (not without no keycard)'. Each print comes with a text panel written...
Edition of 44 (the original work is currently on show at our Venice Biennale exhibition: 'No Go Elevator (not without no keycard)'. Each print comes with a text panel written by the artists. 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 last summer and ran to early 2026.
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 last summer and ran to early 2026.
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