Whoever he is . . . and the artist will only give telephone interviews . . .

Donwood is now preparing to open a solo show at London's uber-cool Lazarides Gallery. If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now is an angstridden meditation on the perils of modern suburban living that will strike a familiar chord with Radiohead fans.

But this time, the exhibition is of Donwood's solo work. "It's an exploration of my thoughts and fears about the suburban experiment. The whole thing is predicated on the assumption that there is going to be cheap oil forever, " Donwood says.

So does this new show hold some clues about the soon-to-be-released Radiohead album? "I don't know at the moment. When they start on a record I've got all these ideas. But then the music has its own dynamic, " he says. "When I'm working I've got their work on a loop in the studio so it's constantly in my head. It's not a conscious thing . . .

you absorb things from the music and let them out in a different way."

So why is the artist so keen to conceal his identity?

"Who I am is different from who I am when I'm making artwork. It's almost like the person who does the artwork is different from the person who picks the kids up from school, washes up, does the hoovering and has a normal life, " says Donwood. "It's a kind of benign schizophrenia. But it's not a clinical problem." Alice Jones If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now is at the Lazarides Gallery, London W1 until 14 July www. lazinc. com