Rumble Museum students work with Ashmolean on music and art of Radiohead to mark their 'This Is What You Get' exhibition

Last term, Rumble Museum Students in Year Eleven and Twelve at Cheney were very excited to be taking part in a collaborative project involving the forthcoming exhibition "This is what you get" at the Ashmolean.

It is the first exhibition in a public gallery to bring together the visual work of Stanley Donwood and Radiohead's Thom Yorke. The Ashmolean state: More than 120 works will be on display, with many of the paintings, drawings and digital art specifically created for Thom Yorke’s internationally acclaimed band Radiohead, formed in Oxford in 1985.

The young people were invited to attend a session where the director of the exhibition presented ideas for the exhibition, and students were able to offer feedback and suggestions to be incorporated into the exhibition. Students were asked, before the visit, to choose a Radiohead album cover or song and prepare a creative response: this could be a poem, piece of artwork, or song. The Ashmolean was particularly keen on these responses being collaborative projects, since the exhibition itself is focused on a collaboration.

Students produced new songs, artwork, poems, voiceovers, and videos - all inspired by the cover art and music of Radiohead. The Ashmolean have created a special exhibition page for the students' work here.

We are very grateful to have been able to collaborate with the Ashmolean on this first of its kind exhibition. Rumble Museum students had chosen Radiohead's OK Computer to feature in a permanent new Music Technology Exhibition at the school.