Contact
thomdriver@gmail.com
| Education | |
| 2018 | MA Master of Voice, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam |
| 1999 | BA (Hons) Arts Management, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK |
Selected exhibitions and curatorial activity |
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| 2022 | Galerie Oberwelt, Stuttgart (upcoming solo show) |
| 2021 | De Aanschouw, Rotterdam Freed From Desire, Renenee, Amsterdam – www.freedfromdesire.xyz |
| 2020 | Irruptive Chora, Chalton Gallery, London |
| Boiling Point, Third Quarter Gallery, Brisbane, Australia | |
| 2019 | Guest curator, Moving Image Club screenings, Sexyland and Goleb, Amsterdam |
| 2018 | Minotauro, Espacio Cultural, Barca de Avilla, Spain |
| Mountain Song, (Master of Voice MA graduation show), Dokzaal, Amsterdam | |
| 2017 | Curator, Original Copy, WORM, Rotterdam – www.worm.org |
| Of Voice, Im Goldenen, Düsseldorf | |
| Songs of Innocence and Experience, Rongwrong, Amsterdam | |
| 2012 | Function Room – instigated and curated a series of monthly one-evening events in London, with a focus on performative and time-based work – www.function-room.info |
| 2011 | Mail Art at the Memorial, Galeria Progresso, Porto Alegre, Brazil |
| Irina Botea / We Are The Artists, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland | |
| Die Kleine Kunstsammler, K3 Project Space, Zürich | |
| 2009 | Local: Meat is My Veg, Caribic Residency, Hamburg |
| 2007 | My Penguin, 39, London |
| 2003 | Please Take One, 39, London |
Selected performances |
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| 2021 | Online performance, launch of of womxn and other weeds, a publication by Liza Prins and Layla Durrani |
| 2019 | Performative reading of Voicesong, WOW, Amsterdam |
| Akademia, an opera, Malkasten Park, Düsseldorf – www.akademiaoper.com | |
| 2018 | Sebastiano Blu (by Pauline Curnier Jardin), Thomaskerk, Amsterdam |
| Site-specific singing (by Miyuki Inoue), Dokzaal and WOW, Amsterdam | |
| 2016 | Nachtelijke Dwaling #10 by Ute Eisenreich and Zhana Ivanova, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam |
| 2007 | The Soundtrack (a film by Annika Eriksson), Cubitt Gallery, London |
| 2005 | Triangle2 (by Max Mason), Traingle Space, Chelsea College of Art, London |
| 2004 | Performers Wanted (a film by Peter Harris) |
| Soundtrack & performance in Hymn (a film by Peter Harris), commissioned for Artist’s Film on Music Culture, National Film Theatre, London | |
| 2003 | An Evening With Jabba the Hut, International 3, Manchester |
| Kabinett der Abstrakten, Bloomberg Space, London | |
| You Don’t Love Me Yet (by Johanna Billing), Frieze Art Fair, London | |
| The Mighty Lights Community Project (by David Thorpe), Tate Live Series, Tate Britain, London | |
Publications |
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| 2021 | of womxn and other weeds, a publication by Liza Prins and Layla Durrani |
| 2020 | IN search || RE search, (ed. Gabrielle Kennedy), Valiz, Amsterdam |
| Master of Voice (ed. Lisette Smits), Sternberg Press, Berlin | |
| 2018 | The Name of the Author, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam |
Residencies |
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| 2021 | Guest artist, Foundation B.a.d., Rotterdam |
| 2019 | Joya:AiR, Velez Blanco, Spain |
| 2018 | BYOB Residency, Villefranche de Rouergue, Aveyron, France |
Teaching |
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| 2019 | Guest workshop & lecture, Interactive Design, KABK, Den Haag |
Music commissions |
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| 2019 | Soundtrack for Commuter by Aaro Murphy, shown at De School, Amsterdam |
| 2018-19 | Co-written score for Akademia, an opera presented in Malkastenpark, Düsseldorf |
| 2018 | Soundtrack for SCORE, a film by Lotte Geeven, shown at Elektricitheitsfabriek, Den Haag |
| 2016 | A new career in a new town, contribution to The Day Before by dexter bentley, Resonance 104.4 FM, London |
Discography |
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| 2019 | Arthur Brick – Half A Brick (digital LP / bandcamp release) |
| 2016 | Piper’s Son – Who Started This? (Vinyl LP / Vacilando ’68 Recordings) |
| 2015 | Piper’s Son appear on Specialized 4: Combat Cancer (in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust) (4x CD LP / Specialized Project) |
| 2014 | Piper’s Son – Mining (Digital EP / Vacilando ’68 Recordings) |
| 2013 | Piper’s Son – The Roar From Behind (CD LP / Vacilando ’68 Recordings) |
| 2011 | Piper’s Son – Zoo (CD EP / self release) |
| 2010 | Mathew Sawyer & The Ghosts – How Snakes Eat (CD LP / Fire Records) |
| 2009 | Arthur Brick – Original Swiss Wedding (CD EP / self release) |
| 2008 | Arthur Brick – Brown (CD LP / self release) |
| 2005 | Norwegian Lady – Dance Champ (12″ vinyl single / Delta B Records) |
| 2002 | Norwegian Lady – Norwegian Lady (7″ vinyl EP / Golden Triangle Records) |