Stanley Donwood 'Sol' Print Available

Artist: Stanley Donwood
Title: Sol
Medium: Deckled 10 Color Screen Print
Size: 74 x 103 cm
Edition: 66
Price: £277

   

Stanley Donwood is the professional name of British artist and writer Dan Rickwood, born in Essex in 1968. Since 1994 he has created every album cover and much of the visual identity for the band Radiohead, working side-by-side with front-man Thom Yorke in the recording studio and translating the music’s mood into dystopian landscapes, satirical maps and fractured cityscapes. His palette veers from bruised purples to warning reds, applied with knives, sticks and digital tools until the surface feels war scarred yet hypnotic.

Although no evidence links Donwood directly to Banksy as a collaborator, critics often bracket the two because both wield street art style stencils, dark humour and anti-establishment slogans. Donwood’s early paste-ups around Exeter and later graphics for Glastonbury Festival share Banksy’s tactic of hijacking public space to question power, consumerism and environmental collapse. Both artists have also guarded their private lives, letting the work speak first.

Beyond music, Donwood has exhibited worldwide, published short stories and won two Grammy Awards for album packaging. His 2025 retrospective at the Ashmolean Museum pairs paintings with Thom Yorke for the first time, cementing his status as a visual chronicler of modern anxiety. Whether on a record sleeve, city wall or gallery canvas, Stanley Donwood continues to prove that graphic urgency and poetic unease can coexist, influencing generations of image makers including the anonymous figure known as Banksy his stablemate at Pictures On Walls.