The Radiohead frontman has collaborated on the band’s artwork for 30 years. Now, he’s ready to make some noise about it
Visual ArtsThe two old friends sitting side by side on a sofa in the basement of a London gallery space are not, as was once rumoured, the same person. One is Thom Yorke, frontman for Radiohead, among the most significant rock bands of the past 30 years. He has shoulder-length brown hair, a greying beard and wears black Comme des Garçons clothing.
A glance at his work with Yorke might explain. Themes of dread and breakdown recur in Radiohead’s songs, a sense of being lost in a technologically imbalanced world ruled by rapacious bullies. The band’s visual identity is no less vividly disquieting. Childlike cartoons are repurposed to sinister ends, like the band’s logo of a toy bear bristling with teeth. The 2003 albumhas a fold-up map showing city streets riddled with words such as “executioner” and “fear”.
were done in Yorke’s garden shed at the Oxford home where he lives with his wife, the Italian actress Dajana Roncione. Donwood would get the train from Brighton and cycle over on his fold-up bike. They took it in turns to wield the paintbrush. They are both 54, born three weeks apart in 1968. They recall the start of their friendship in Exeter. “I was mouthy,” Yorke recalls of his student self. “Well-read, bookish, diplomatic,” is Donwood’s modest assessment of his own youthful character. Yorke admired the sartorial cut of the other’s jib: Donwood had an unstudenty wardrobe of suits and hats.
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