A brand new exhibition has been introduced celebrating the art work of Radiohead achieved by Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood.
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford have introduced the forthcoming exhibition from the Radiohead frontman and the band’s longtime artist Donwood, titled ‘This Is What You Get’. It’s slated to open in summer time 2025.
“This Is What You Get would be the first exhibition in a public gallery to convey collectively the visible work of Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke”, the museum wrote on Instagram.
“Greater than 120 works might be on show, together with most of the work, drawings and digital artwork particularly created for Yorke’s internationally acclaimed band Radiohead, fashioned in Oxford in 1985.
They added that the “multimedia” exhibition will characteristic “Donwood and Yorke’s distinctive collaborations that discover the advanced relationship between visible artwork and music”, together with art work from “Eighties to the current day, together with Radiohead album covers and promotional band pictures – in addition to private sketchbooks and notebooks by no means seen earlier than in public.”
Members of the museum will get free entry, while normal sale tickets will begin in April 2025.
NME spoke to Donwood in 2022, the place we requested him what about his work, was so spiritually sure to the music of Thom Yorke and Radiohead. In response, Donwood replied: “I don’t know, Jesus! I don’t know something about music, which could assist. ‘I just like the sound of that’ or ‘I don’t just like the sound of that’ is concerning the restrict of my musical understanding.
“For a very long time, Thom and I’d work alongside one another or virtually regardless of one another. We’d work on the identical factor for some time then we’d take activates an image. I’d often win and take over and it grew to become mine as a result of he doesn’t have as a lot religion in his talents as an artist as he does as a musician; which is truthful sufficient as a result of he’s fairly good on the previous music!”
In the meantime, Colin Greenwood might be popping out together with his personal picture ebook capturing the “center period” of Radiohead. Chatting with NME, Greenwood mentioned of the ebook: “It’s a very lovely object, and I believe individuals will respect that as a result of it’s made to the identical exacting commonplace as books by a few of my favorite high quality artwork photographers – individuals like Paul Graham.
“I believe it tells a pleasant story about how 5 guys from Oxfordshire acquired collectively and labored on songs in numerous village halls, then managed to get that to phases all over the world.”
He additionally revealed that the band had reunited for rehearsals, saying: “My brother has been unwell and continues to be recovering. Rehearsals had been actually enjoyable and amicable, although. We rehearsed on this studio known as The Church the place we ended up ending up ‘OK Laptop’, so the final time I used to be there was 1996 recording the bass for ‘Airbag’. There we had been, again in Crouch Finish. It was nice, however past that get collectively, I’m positive we’ll get collectively and make plans – however for what, I don’t know.”
In the meantime, brother Jonny additionally spoke to NME a few potential Radiohead reunion, saying the rehearsals had been “enjoyable and pure.” However when requested about future Radiohead plans, he replied: “There aren’t any plans – we’ve numerous particular person initiatives occurring in the meanwhile.”
Elsewhere, Yorke lately mentioned he “actually doesn’t give a fuck” if individuals need Radiohead to return.