Rachel Owen
| Rachel Owen | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Rachel Mary Owen 1968 Cardiff, Wales |
| Died | (aged 48) |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Printmaker Lecturer |
| Years active | 2001-2016 |
| Spouse(s) | Thom Yorke |
| Children | 2 |
Rachel Mary Owen (1968 – 18 December 2016) was a British photographer, printmaker and lecturer on medieval Italian literature.
Owen was born in Cardiff, Wales. She received a B.A. in Italian and Fine Art (Painting) specialising in Printmaking, 1st Class honours, from University of Exeter. In the 1990s she lived in Poggetto with two students and studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Florence, where she fell in love with Dante's work. She received an MA by Creative Practice with Merit. In 2001, Owen received a PhD from the University of London, where her research was on the illustrations in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.
Owen was a lecturer in Italian with a focus on medieval Italian literature, where she examined illustration and its reception in Dante's Divine Comedy. She taught art history and Dante studies for visiting students at University of Oxford. She was also fine-art printmaker. She mixed photography with printmaking and her work explored ideas of transformation using photographic screenprints Her artwork was featured on the cover of the single for the 1993 Radiohead song "Pop Is Dead," included in rerelease of the band's debut album Pablo Honey. Owen was a member of the Oxford Printmakers Co-operative. Owen died of cancer on 18 December 2016 at the age of 48.
For 23 years Owen was in a relationship with Thom Yorke of the band Radiohead who she met while they were both students at University of Exeter. She and Yorke had two children, a son Noah, born in 2001, and a daughter Agnes, born in 2004. According to the Times, Yorke and Owen married in a secret ceremony in May 2003 in Oxfordshire, which was not reported to the media. In August 2015, the couple announced they had separated amicably. Several critics believed the separation influenced the lyrics of Radiohead's 2016 album A Moon Shaped Pool.
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