'I come from a generation in England that considered making money or trying to promote yourself to be morally suspect.'
Born in Essex, England, Donwood studied Fine Art at the University of Exeter, where he first met Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke. The lifelong collaboration between band and artist was initiated when Yorke asked Donwood to contribute art for Radiohead’s original My Iron Lung EP (1994).
Donwood’s paintings, drawings and prints address socio-political issues, often employing satire that draws comparisons to Hogarth, Insa and Banksy. He has been the official artist of the Glastonbury music festival since 2002 and has won two Grammys for his artwork for Radiohead’s albums Amnesiac and In Rainbows. He has exhibited at galleries in the UK, USA, Australia, Italy, Spain, Japan and the Netherlands, as well as at the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht. He lives and works in Brighton, England.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
'The Crow Flies: part two', TIN MAN ART, London (2023)
'Tales from the Riverbank', TIN MAN ART, London (2023)
'The Crow Flies: part one', TIN MAN ART, London (2023)
'Modern Landscape', Saatchi Gallery, London (2022)
'Test Specimens', TIN MAN ART, London (2022)
'Unsettling Landscapes: The Art of the Eerie, St Barbe Museum', Lymington (2021-22)
'How to Disappear Completely', Christie's, London (2021)
'Between the bliss and me', TIN MAN ART, London (2021)
'Paintings From A Moon Shaped Pool', Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands (2017)
'The Panic Office, Carriageworks', Sydney, Australia (2015)
'Hollywood Dooom', Chapter, Cardiff, Wales (2014)
'Lost Angeles', Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, USA (2012)
'Black Maze: The Minotaur', Lazarides, London (2011)
'Palimpsest', Mondo Bizzarro, Rome, Italy (2010)
'Over Normal', Fifty24SF, San Francisco, USA (2010)
'Red Maze', Schunck, Heerlen, Netherlands (2010)
'El Chupacabra', Weapon of Choice, Bristol (2009)
'Everybody's Happy Nowadays', VIPs, Amsterdam (2008)
'I Love The Modern World', BTAP, Tokyo, Japan (2008)
'Department of Reclusive Paranoia', VIPS, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2007)
'Dead Children Playing', Iguapop, Barcelona, Spain (2006)
COLLECTIONS
The Bonnefanten Musuem, Maastricht, Netherlands
Schunck Museum, Heerlen, Netherlands
AWARDS
GRAMMY, Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package - In Rainbows (2009)
GRAMMY, Best Recording Package - Amnesiac - Special Limited Edition (2002)
EDUCATION
1988 - 1991 Exeter College of Art: Fine Art
1987 North East Essex School of Art: Art Foundation