Installation, Painting, Sculpture, Illustration, Portrait, Figure
Ysabelle Vautour is an interdisciplinary artist and founder of the NB Disability Art Collective. A graduate of Artslink’s Catapult Arts Accelerator Program. Ysabelle explores accessibility and ableism in a fun and playful way through visual and installation art. She began her art practice in 2019 and in that year her art was featured in CBC, Acadie Nouvelle, Art Battle, Dieppe Cultural Center, Art Kitchen, Grid City Magazine. and was selected for a juried exhibition at the Nails on the Wall Gallery in Metuchen, New Jersey. Ysabelle had three solo exhibitions at Struts in Sackville, Corrid'art Gallery in Shediac, and at the Penny Gallery in Fredericton. The legally blind artist collaborated with Theatre New Brunswick and the JRG Art Society for the Arts on Atlantic Canada's first Disability Arts Symposium. She served as the artist residence at the Fredericton Arts alliance and Connexion ARC. Ysabelle was awarded an Artsnb artist in residence grant to work with the NB Coalition with Persons with Disabilities.
She was also featured in Akimbo, Global News, CTV, Disability Without Poverty Roundup, Sunbury Shores as well as the Outsiders and Others Gallery in Vancouver.