*STANLEY DONWOOD (b. 1968) 'Operation Phantom Fury'

Stanley Donwood is an English artist and writer best known for his collaborations with the band Radiohead, for whom he has created all of their album covers since 1995. Donwood, born Dan Rickwood on October 29th 1968 in Essex, studied at the University of Exeter where he met Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, beginning a creative partnership that has lasted over a quarter of a century. Yorke stated on meeting Donwood “When I met him, first day, he sat there with a book, totally aloof. I thought, I’m either really going to hate this bloke or I’m going to end up working with him forever. One of the two.”

Donwood remarked on the work offered here "What we have here is some kind of hateful monster orchestrating a rain of incendiaries upon a burning city. Operation Phantom Fury was the codename given to the US military assault on the Iraqi city of Falluja in November 2004. You can read as much or as little into this picture as you like."