What is the A/pART Project?
The A/pART Project is a web of artists and creatives searching for, finding and swapping “found images” to create artworks. Our found images are exchanged through the post, and are then used to create artworks through analogue processes. A/pART is an inclusive project with many of the artists involved bringing a wide range of experience and creative practice, from experienced artists working professionally across multiple disciplines, to novice artists making their first works.
Rhiannon Robins, Space Chase, (2026). Found images on paper.
Digital technologies have saturated our worlds, and although the A/pART Collective are hardly luddites, we’re just kind of sick of looking at screens.
Why analogue?
Found images are in the pages of magazines, advertising flyers, food packaging, event tickets and festival programs. They can be in discarded children’s books in thrift stores. Take away menus. Greeting cards and gift wrap. Once you start looking, you’ll notice how saturated our worlds are with images. Found images visually tell stories about the worlds we live in.
Found images are…
A sustainable art material, taking advantage of something that already exists, often destined for the bin.
Full of visual codes and messages. They tell us what is beautiful, delicious, and important in our communities from pop culture to politics.
Are a creative challenge. You never know what you are going to get when swapped and gifted.
Versatile, offering endless possibilities for collages, mixed media artworks, a starting point or reference image for an artwork.
Why found images?
The A/pART Collective know that creating art is…
a form of defiance and rebellion
a powerful tool for public education
an important way to care for ourselves and our communities
a health behaviour which improves quality of life
Dominika Deska, Alter/Altar, detail views, (2026). Found images, cabochons, glass beads.
Sharing is built into the core of the A/pART Project, through making and exhibiting artworks, community workshops, and a quarterly subscription Zine so you can participate no matter where you are.
A/pART Collective Founders
Sarah Youngberry
Based in Brisbane, Australia, Sarah is an artist, dancer and educator. Her work often deals with social connection, memory and resilience in the face of climate change. She frequently combines dance, textiles, ceramics and found object/images in her works.
Sarah is happiest working and creating with others, through collaborative projects and community workshops. She is an emerging researcher, focused on the relationship between dance, creativity and health.
A/pART Collective began when Sarah asked her friends Åshild and Hannie…
“Hey do you want to make some collages with me?”
Åshild Kristensen
Åshild Kristensen is based in Oslo, Norway. She is an artist, and professional project manager. Åshild’s creative practice is never limited by logistics, to a specific discipline or material. Her work regularly deals with human connections, intimacy and the intersection of arts and science.
She frequently collaborates with and creates commissioned works to visualise and aid in scientific communication.
A/pART Collective began when Åshild responded to Sarah saying…
“Sure! And we should also…”
Hannie Han
Hannie Han is an emerging performing artist and illustrator currently living in Seoul, Korea. She moonlights as a theatre student and recently landed her first part in a K Drama.
Hannie’s broad career has spanned fashion, health administration, art curation and illustration across her home and adopted countries in Korea and Australia.
A/pART Collective began when Hannie answered Sarah’s message saying…
“Sure… could we make this into a book?”
Dominika Deska
Dominika is a multidisciplinary artist whose heart lies in textile and fibre arts. Her contemporary textile works often draw from traditions of her Polish heritage.
She is also a community arts professional, experienced facilitator and Managing Director of Substation Arts Paddington and the Hands On Artists Cooperative.
A/pART Collective grew when Sarah and Dominika met, and realised how much their creative practice and projects naturally aligned.