One aspect of my Radiohead love is the artwork that accompanies their music. So I was really looking forward to seeing Stanley Donwood's 'Work on Paper' from their new The King of Limbs album. It's at The Outsiders Gallery on Greek Street in Soho, a small, bare venue which on a sunny day in late February made a nice change.
Donwood's pieces are a heady mix of illustration, text, paint and hand drawn work. Vivid and thoughtful (he creates alongside the group as they make an album) they make you look at the music and art as one piece.
To be honest, albeit a small collection, it was disappointing. It feels a bit all over the place with no real connection to what's gone before. There wasn't enough of the new work either. What was available from the new album was four or five lovely atmospheric pencil drawings of woods and trees. It's as if you've been stranded alone, desolate in a deep dark and windy forest late at night. Very Tim Burton.
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