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Royal Academy of Arts Magazine no. 99NRC Handelsblad • Dirk Limburg
Summer Exhibition • Royal Academy of Arts • London

The Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition is the largest open submission contemporary art exhibition in the world, drawing together a wide range of new work by both established and unknown living artists. From Julian Schnabel to Tina Vanderwerf.
Now in its 240th year, the exhibition includes around 1200 works.
Last year the exhibition attracted 160.000 visitors.

John Daviesart dealer and director of John Davies Gallery

Tina works within a strict code of practice in the creation of her work. She is attracted to quite ordinary discarded everyday items, items that, once discarded, catch the artist's eye because of the incongruity of their ultimate resting place. Equally, objects faded and degraded by weather fascinate.

The Scotsman Susan Mansfield about Exhibition in Atticsalt • Edinburgh

Tina Vanderwerf is interested in small, cast aside things, lost gloves, a dropped children's drawing, the scrapyard in Prestonpans.
Her images - of a window in a derelict caravan, the solitary kettle, the clouds in the skye above the photographer's head; and of Edinburgh windows, classical in proportion but decaying, with peeling paint and grubby lace curtains - are quietly powerful.

Graham Russell • Creative Director Atticsaltabout Tina's work

Tina takes her subjects from Skye, Edinburgh, London and The Netherlands. She has produced some exquisite images that make the ordinary extraordinary. Old caravan windows, cast off rubber gloves and Edinburgh tenement windows are just some of her subjects. I am astounded by how she manages to encapsulate and awaken the consciousness of past human contact in the scene. Her photographs not only reflect sympathy for the past user of the object or building but, in a simple frame, have a real sense of social comment all rolled in.

Stuart Haden • photographerabout Trotternish 01

Very well observed and taken. I like it. Especially as the photograph transforms the object from a rubber glove into something which appears to be between a sculpture and a shell like sea creature.

TINA VANDERWERF • (The Hague 1951)
I am a selftaught photographer and live and work in the Netherlands and in The UK. I had the pleasure to introduce many people into the world of art during guided tours in Galleries and Museums throughout Europe.
Since I decided to come forward with my own photographs my work has been included in the following exhibitions:

Exhibitions
• 2009 •
Galerie Contrast, Tilburg.
• 2008 •
Three Camuslusta Gallery, Waternish, Isle of Skye.
Annual Exhibition 2008 The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.
Summer Exhibition 2008, Royal Academy, London.
John Davies Gallery, Moreton-in-Marsh.
• 2007 •
Visual Arts Scotland, Edinburgh.
Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh.
Novas Gallery Camden, London.
John Davies Gallery, Moreton-in-Marsh.
The Art Gallery, Grampian Hospitals Art Trust, Aberdeen.
Atticsalt Gallery, Edinburgh.
Total Kunst Art Gallery, Edinburgh.
• 2006 •
WKG-Architects, Utrecht.
Galerie Achter De Kan, Den Bosch.
An Tuireann Art Centre, Portree, Isle of Skye.
Arlington Gallery, London.
• 2005 •
Foundation for Contemporary Art,
Woudrichem.