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Contact
thomdriver@gmail.com
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Education
2018 MA Master of Voice, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam
1999 BA (Hons) Arts Management, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

Solo presentations
2023 Incomplete sentences (with Ruth Legg), Knollendamstraat, Amsterdam
2022 An Image in Search of an Idea, Growing Space, Wielewaal, Rotterdam
Listen up, I’ll show you something, Galerie Oberwelt, Stuttgart
If the wind blows, Flag Project Oud-Charlois, Rotterdam
2021 Temporary Arrangement #1, De Aanschouw, Rotterdam

Selected group shows and curatorial activity
2023 Spells on the Wave, an other world, Rotterdam
2022 Home Cinema x Sandberg Alumni, screening at Rialto VU Cinema, Amsterdam
  We Are All Guests #8, South Explorer, Rotterdam
2021 We Are All Guests #6, Paviljoen aan het Water, Rotterdam
  Attract, Engage, Motivate (part of the Bad—Inside Out—For You series), Foundation b.a.d., Rotterdam
  Co-curator, Freed From Desire, Renenee, Amsterdam – freedfromdesire.getofftheweb.net
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
  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 – 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

Selected performances
2022 Arthur Brick, audio-visual performance, AMP Studios, London

2021 BABYMAN, performance and exhibition, Galerie Oberwelt, Stuttgart

  Wyrtig, Weedy House (by Liza Prins and Layla Durrani), Mondriaan Prospects, Art Rotterdam
  of womxn and other weeds (a book by Liza Prins and Layla Durrani), performance for online launch
2019 Performative reading of Voicesong, WOW, Amsterdam
  Akademia, an opera, Malkasten Park, Düsseldorf – 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
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
2022 Stichting NAC, Rotterdam
2021 Guest artist, Foundation B.a.d., Rotterdam
2019 Joya:AiR, Velez Blanco, Spain
2018 BYOB Residency, Villefranche de Rouergue, Aveyron, France

Music commissions
2022 Soundtrack for What Makes a Home, an installation by Dan Turner, shown at Lakeside Centre, Thamesmead, UK
2019 Soundtrack for Commuter an installation 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

Discography
2023 BABYMAN – Babyman
(Limited edition vinyl LP / Tea Bar Records)
2022 BABYMAN – Babyman
(digital LP / Spotify, etc)
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)