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Since then he has gone onto produce artwork for Radiohead’s ‘The Bends’ (1995), ‘OK Computer’ (1997), ‘Kid A’ (2000), ‘Amnesiac’ (2001), ‘Hail To The Thief’ (2003) and all the other singles, posters, websites and merchandise. He started his career with the launch of the ‘Stanley Donwood Outdoor Gallery’ in Plymouth in 1992, painting elaborate pieces on disused buildings, avoiding retribution by studying the habits and timetables of security guards. By 1995 Stanley had designed his first website entitled ‘Binge’ which has consequently morphed and grown over the years into his current site, the Slowly Downward Manufactory, www.slowlydownward.com. His interest in the internet led him to co-ordinate one of the world’s first ‘cyber - conferences’, DIGITAL CHAOS in 1997. He was so exhausted by the experience that he made the first of many vows “never to do anything on the internet again”. An exhibition entitled NO DATA was held in 1999 at the Watershed Media Centre in Bristol. There was no exhibits except for a lengthy and bizarre questionnaire and a TV monitor which displayed a series of equally bizarre statements. In the same year Stanley wrote some very short stories which were published on circular cards encased in a circular tin entitled ‘Small Thoughts’. In 2001 ‘Slowly Downward; A collection of Miserable Stories’ was published. In 2002 Stanley wrote his second book ‘Catacombs of Terror!’, a trashy noir-exploitation detective story, that features ‘guns, drugs and pigs’. It was written as a result of a bet (£5) that he couldn’t write 50,000 words in a month. Donwood won a Grammy along with Dr Tchock in 2001 for best Packaging/Artwork for the Special Edition of Amnesiac. This gleaming token now resides in his airing cupboard along with his collection of towels. Since 2002 he has been designing teeshirts for Glastonbury Festival, album covers for Matthew Herbert’s Accidental label, and finally getting round to making screenprints for his Slowly Downward Manufactory. He had his first solo exhibition (not counting the strange NO DATA shows) in 2006 at Steve Lazarides’ gallery in Soho’s Greek Street. This exhibition was called LONDON VIEWS, the artwork for which was used for Thom Yorke’s album ‘The Eraser’. In November 2006 Stanley had an exhibition in Barcelona entitled DEAD CHILDREN PLAYING, featuring large-scale paintings produced over the previous 10 years. June 2007 – Stanley put on his second solo show at the Lazarides gallery, called IF YOU LIVED HERE YOU’D BE HOME BY NOW, featuring new work in the form of etchings, woodcuts and paintings. [+/-] more.. [+] Japanese profile.. |
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