Gestalt Art Therapy Centre: 2026 COLLAGE CHALLENGE

Aug 18, 2026

2026 COLLAGE CHALLENGE

COLLAGE CHALLENGE

THE FEMININE POWER

BY GEMMA GARCIA

Original picture

COLLAGE CHALLENGE - Inspired by Old Times

We invite you to create your own collage using this historical photograph as your starting point.

Original photograph:
Portrait of Flo Saunders, date unknown
Photographer: Reuben R. Sallows (1855-1937)
Collection: Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol
Object ID: 0385-rrs-ogohc-ph
The original photograph is identified as being in the public domain in Canada.

THE CHALLENGE

Create your own artistic transformation of this historical photograph.

Your collage should retain at least 50% of the original image while transforming it through your own creative vision.

You may cut, layer, paint, draw, digitally manipulate, combine materials, introduce new imagery, or use other creative techniques.

AI-assisted and AI-generated elements are welcome.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

Send your finished collage to us by DM or email, together with:

Your name and surname
Your country of residence
Title of your creation

SUBMISSION CONDITIONS FOR A FREE COMMUNITY ART CHALLENGE

By submitting an artwork to the Collage Challenge, you confirm that:

You are 18 years of age or older.
You created the submitted artwork yourself and/or have the necessary rights and permissions to use all additional elements incorporated into it.
Your submission does not infringe the copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other rights of any third party.
You will not submit material that is unlawful, defamatory, discriminatory, obscene or otherwise inappropriate for this community project.
You retain ownership of any rights you hold in your original contribution to the artwork.
You grant Gestalt Art Therapy Centre Australia non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free permission to reproduce, display, publish and share your submitted artwork in connection with this challenge and the promotion of Gestalt Art Therapy Centre Australia, including on our social media, website, newsletters and promotional materials.
This permission includes reasonable technical modifications required for publication, such as resizing, cropping or adapting the artwork to different social-media or publication formats.
No financial compensation or royalty will be payable for these uses.
We may publish your name, country of residence and the title of your creation with your artwork unless you specifically ask us not to do so.

Please only submit an artwork if you are comfortable with it potentially being published publicly.

Participants are responsible for ensuring that any additional photographs, artwork, graphics, text, AI-generated material or other content incorporated into their submission can lawfully be used and shared.

Gestalt Art Therapy Centre Australia reserves the right not to publish or to remove a submission if concerns arise regarding copyright, third-party rights, inappropriate content or compliance with these conditions.

This is a free creative community challenge and not a competition. No purchase or payment is required to participate.

gestaltarttherapycentre@gmail.com

ABOUT THE SOURCE IMAGE

Portrait of Flo Saunders, photographed by Reuben R. Sallows (1855-1937). Collection of the Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol, Object ID: 0385-rrs-ogohc-ph. The source photograph is identified as being in the public domain in Canada.

We look forward to seeing how you transform the past through your own creative vision.

Example collage by Gemma Garcia (Australia)
Title: Feminine Power

Yaro Starak

He graduated in Psychology from the University of Manitoba and in Social Work from the University of British Columbia, Canada. He continued his doctoral studies at the University of Toronto, specializing in group psychotherapy and Adult Education. He trained in Gestalt Therapy with Jorge Rosner at the Gestalt Institute of Toronto and after graduation, he was a faculty member for four years. He worked as a professor at the University of Queensland, Australia and is the founder of the Gestalt Center in Brisbane and Terrigal near Sydney in this country. Yaro conducts gestalt training workshops in Spain, Mexico, Denmark, Germany, and Canada. He also gives workshops for groups of men using indigenous rituals. Yaro is Gestalt Art Therapist CAT®. Co-Director of the Gestalt ART Therapy center (Australia). Co-Director of the Arteterapia Gestalt (Gestalt Art Therapy training in the Spanish language)
Yaro has an interesting range of Books related to the Gestalt works, Couples & Groups work.

Gemma Garcia

Gestalt Art Therapist CAT® Gestalt Art Therapy. Gestalt Therapist Master diploma from the Gestalt Institute Valencia (Spain). Art Therapist using the Gestalt approach CAT. Master in Ericksonian Psychology at the University of Valencia (Spain). Communications Operator at the Provincial Emergency Coordination center and Fire Consortium (Castellon, Spain) Naval radiotelephone operator. Group work and individual psychological intervention in crisis and emotional impact on collective emergencies with firefighters, policemen, paramedics using Gestalt art therapy techniques. Aurasoma Therapist Level 2. Dip. of Visual Arts. Curator. Coordinator-Art Group exhibitions. Co-Director of the Gestalt ArtbTherapy center (Australia). Co-Director of the Arteterapia Gestalt (Gestalt Art Therapy training in the Spanish language)