The Alchemist of the Everyday: The Life and Legacy of Donald Sinclair Driver In the landscape of New Zealand’s mid-century modernism, few voices resonated with as much raw, provocative energy as Donald Sinclair Driver. Born in Hastings in 1930, Driver emerged not from the polished halls of traditional academies, but through a self-taught mastery of the tangible world. His journey was one of profound transformation, where the mundane objects of daily life were reimagined through the eyes of an artist who saw magic in the discarded and poetry in the vernacular. Before his name became synonymou…