Ron van der Ende (Delft, 1965) is a Rotterdam artist. He studied at the Willem de Kooning Academy, initially painting, but later switched to sculpture. Through his father who worked at a carpentry factory, he became acquainted with working with wood. In 1990 Van der Ende won the WdKA Maaskant Prize. From the mid-2014s he decided to work exclusively with scrap wood. He makes perspective wall sculptures from this material using a complex traditional technique. He uses materials that people have thrown away, such as old furniture, floorboards or doors, which he processes into a heavy veneer with the original paint still on it; the traces of use become part of the image. Van der Ende's work is regularly shown in galleries in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Seattle and Los Angeles. In XNUMX his work was shown in the Kunsthal in the exhibition The Factory Set, showing 38 bas-reliefs.
