Ferry van Tongeren studied at the Willem de Kooning Art Academy, and Jaap Sinke at the Art Academy in Tilburg. After a career of 20 years as Art and Creative Directors working for several Dutch and International Brands, they decided to work for two years solely on creating their art collection. A collection of works using Taxidermy as a medium. In 2011 they founded DSvT (Darwin, Sinke & van Tongeren). 

The results of their effort were exhibited in London (Jamb, Photo London), in Amsterdam (Stedelijk Museum, PAN Amsterdam, Haute Photographie), in San Francisco (SJAS Ken Fulk) and Brussels. Their work is part of several collections all over the world, including the Damien Hirst’s Murderme Collection. They were asked to co-curate a whole exhibition for the Museum Old Amelisweerd in The Netherlands with their Fine Taxidermy artworks in 2017.

The duo Ferry van Tongeren and Jaap Sinke create Fine Taxidermy compositions and photography inspired by the old master painters of the golden age, a fusion between the wonders of art and the secrets of science.

Working with old taxidermy techniques, Sinke & van Tongeren are enable to create extraordinary poses.

Trophées de Chasse sans Victimes is a classic hunting scene for which not single animal has been killed. The artists were inspired to create this intriguing layered work by the tension between the image of death and destruction, and the animals that died of natural causes in zoos or farms. They mounted a large number of animals to create this 17th century composition. This one refers to the famous theme of ‘hunting still life’ from the Netherlands and the work of famous painters like Asselijn, Hondecoeter, Weenix, Snyders.