THIS IS WHAT YOU GET EXHIBITION

6 Aug 2025 – 11 Jan 2026

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This retrospective at the Ashmolean will be the first exhibition in a public gallery to bring together the visual work of Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke.

More than 120 works will be on display, with many of the paintings, drawings and digital art specifically created for Yorke’s internationally acclaimed band Radiohead, formed in Oxford in 1985.
 

Radiohead's Thom Yorke and co-artist Stanley Donwood with some of their artworks

Artists Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood with some of their work. Photograph by Julian Broad, courtesy of TIN MAN ART

 
This Is What You Get will showcase Donwood and Yorke’s unique collaborations which explore the complex relationship between visual art and music.

The multi-media exhibition will feature artworks from the 1990s to the present day, including Radiohead album covers and promotional band images – as well as personal sketchbooks and notebooks never seen before in public.

 

Colourful and abstract artwork showing a mountainous landscape with a grey shadowy creature in the top right and a grey silhouette in the left corner, by Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke

Get Out Before Saturday, Stanley Donwood & Thom Yorke, 2000, acrylic on canvas © Stanley Donwood & Thom Yorke

Radiohead's album cover artwork for OK Computer showing a blurry intersection of roads in abstract in greys and blues on a white background with a shadowy figure and an x on the right

OK Computer album cover, Thom Yorke & Stanley Donwood, 1997 © 1997 XL Recordings Ltd

Wall of Eyes abstract and brightly-coloured album artwork for Thom Yorke's The Smile band by artists Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke

Wall of Eyes, Stanley Donwood & Thom Yorke, 2023, tempera, gouache and gesso on linen © Stanley Donwood & Thom Yorke (used for The Smile, Wall of Eyes album cover, 2024)

A red house stands in heavy snowfall with a blue road sweeping round the house through the snow in this print by Thom Yorke & Stanley Donwood dating to 1995

Heavy Snowfall on House, Thom Yorke & Stanley Donwood, 1995, Lambda print on paper © Thom Yorke & Stanley Donwood

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This is What you Get exhibition catalogue cover

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