Stanley Donwood
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Stanley Donwood is the pseudonym of English writer and artist Dan Rickwood, who has gained fame for his work on the album and poster art for Radiohead since the release of their My Iron Lung EP (1994). Since 1996, he has also collaborated with Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke and others on the band's websites. Yorke is usually credited alongside Donwood under the moniker "The White Chocolate Farm," or more recently "Dr. Tchock", "Tchocky" or some such abbreviation.
Between graduating from the University of Exeter and working with Radiohead (from their second album, The Bends, onward), Donwood worked as a freelance artist in Plymouth, England. He has created in a wide range of artistic mediums, producing oil paintings, shop signs, sketches, silk screen prints, t-shirts, and outdoor murals.
Donwood and Yorke met at the University of Exeter as art students. In 2001, they won a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package for the Special Edition of Amnesiac. Aside from his work for Radiohead, Donwood also maintains his own website, [Slowly Downward], where he publishes his own short stories and various other writings, all of which have a unique and often odd style.
Despite his popularity, Donwood's enigma-like status is such that his existence as separate from Thom Yorke has at times been doubted. He has, however, appeared in the occassional band webcast and the Grammy Award ceremony in 2001, where he and Yorke/Tchocky collected the award for Best Recording Package.
Donwood's most recent exhibition, ["London Views"], is a series of fourteen woodcut-style prints of various London landmarks being destroyed by fire and flood. The prints are being exhibited in [Lazarides Gallery], in Soho, London. The prints are also used as the cover and insert art for Thom Yorke first solo album, The Eraser.
Bibliography
- Small Thoughts (1998) - printed on eleven circular cards, housed in a tin
- Slowly Downward (2001)
- Catacombs of Terror! (2002)
- Tachistoscope (2003)
- My Giro (2005) - unprinted eight chapter story
External links
- [Slowly Downward]
- [Stanley Donwood Fans Forum]
- [Donwood talks about OK Computer]
- [Donwood talks about The Bends]
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