Stanley Donwood Exclusive and Original Screen Prints x Print Club London
Print Club London are proud to have launched the exclusive Stanley Donwood limited edition, screen prints available to purchase from the online gallery, whilst stocks last.
Limited to an edition of 25 ‘Very Air’ and ‘Cold Earth’ are taken from a vast number produced from an installation at Ovalspace, London when Atoms For Peace released ‘Amok’.
The prints also featured in an installation at The Enterprise pub in Chalk Farm while Atoms For Peace did a residency at The Roundhouse.
Photo Credit by Tinatin Shaburishvili
The idea was vaguely inspired by old photos of advertising hoardings on the sides of ramshackle buildings in fin-de-seicle Paris. The artwork itself is mostly constructed from fragments of enlarged linocut details; the linocut in question is an 18 foot long depiction of Los Angeles being destroyed by fire, flood and meteor storm [in a quasi-mediaeval style] called ‘Lost Angeles’. This was first exhibited at Shepard Fairey’s space on Sunset Boulevard in LA.
“It has been 20 years and seven albums since the man known unofficially as Radiohead’s sixth member created the gasping, mannequin-like face that adorned The Bends. Stanley Donwood has since worked closely with the Oxfordshire rock band to create all their album art and posters.
The artist spends a lot of time with Yorke and co when they are working on new material in order to find a suitable aesthetic. “The last thing I did for them was a while ago. I really dislike this bit of time, when I’m not sure what I’m doing. I could go back and do what I did for the last one [2011’s The King of Limbs] – that would be easy! But instead I’m going to do something completely different, which is a bit of a challenge.”
Donwood, now aged 46 and living in “bucolic Somerset”, has several high-profile exhibitions coming up and will produce another work for Glastonbury this year (his pictures have become synonymous with the Somerset festival and last year his painting Nether provided its central image) before jetting off to Sydney to prepare for a huge retrospective of his work.”
The Independent / March 2015 – Radiohead’s ‘sixth member’ Stanley Donwood on how flame-throwing brought them together.
‘They must really rate you for you to have worked together for so long? “Or can’t be bothered to find someone else? I don’t know.”