Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Launches A Pop-Up Exhibition

Delve into the mind of one of the world’s greatest musicians of all time in this exciting pop-up exhibition launching later this month. 

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and artist Stanley Donwood come together once again this month, allowing fans to explore sixty drawings from Radiohead’s Kid A era. The exhibition, titled Test Specimens, will be taking over 8 Duke Street, St James’s, on 25th – 29th May. It offers fans a rare chance to peer into the nightmarish fuelled drawings that led to the creation of one of the most influential albums ever made. 

If you’re not so well versed in Radiohead’s history, Thom and Stanley met back in the 1980s as students, and have been creating art together ever since. Stanley has been the backbone for Radiohead’s cover art, making the instantly recognisable art for albums since The Bends in 1996.

This exhibition, presented by TIN MAN ART, allows fans to immerse themselves in the world of Radiohead, Thom and Stanley, and see the dystopian-esque art in the flesh. 

The work itself was created around the time when Thom Yorke became overwhelmed by the success of Radiohead’s first album, OK Computer, and didn’t want to make anything of similar ilk. So instead he made Kid A, an exploration of electronic creation, and this collection of works came about in its process. 

Around the same time as the millennium, when everyone was worried, expect end of the world references and carnage created in the designs, and for everything to be in its right place. 

Fans can walk around, spanning the worlds created and learn how to disappear completely, from dream trees to pyramid scarecrows, volcanoes erupting to burnt out figures without faces.

TIN MAN ART presents TEST SPECIMENS pops up from 25th May – 29th May 2022 
8 Duke Street, St James’s, London, SW1Y 6BN
www.tinmanart.com