Somehow, 2026

My work begins with the human figure, but is ultimately driven by abstraction. I am interested in what happens when a single point of view is allowed to shift. I move around the figure, work across different sittings and sometimes introduce different bodies onto the same surface. A line begun by one figure may be continued by another. Nothing needs to cancel what came before.

The physical process is equally important. I deliberately relinquish a degree of control, often drawing and painting with long, irregular sticks that make precision impossible and marks unpredictable. I welcome that uncertainty. Rather than imposing an outcome, I work intuitively with what appears—responding, retaining, altering and allowing the work to lead somewhere I could not have planned.

For me, abstraction creates space for different perceptions to coexist. I am interested in the beauty that appears when certainty gives way to possibility.

What remains is not a record of what was seen, but what became possible through looking.

Yzabela Dior is a Gippsland-based Australian visual artist. After an earlier career outside the arts, she returned to formal study in her fifties, completing an Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts. Since then, her work has received several awards and has been exhibited regularly in solo and group exhibitions across Gippsland and beyond. Her practice is grounded in abstraction and an ongoing exploration of form, perception and emotional experience.