Rebecca Williams
Rebecca Williams
I am a d/Deaf photographer and visual artist, currently completing my PhD at the University of Gloucestershire. My research explores d/Deaf identity, adaptive visual perception, sensory communication, and neuroplasticity.
I capture the world through a heightened visual acuity, using photography, fine art, mixed media, and visual storytelling to examine gestures, micro-adjustments, anticipatory perception, and facial expressions.
My work investigates how d/Deaf and hearing people perceive and interact with the world, transforming these insights into compelling visual narratives.
Through my practice, I aim to generate new knowledge in d/Deaf studies, cognitive science, and visual culture, while engaging audiences with the experience of perception, adaptation, and identity.
Donna Skaropoulou
Lifeline Art Studio
Mykonos
2005-2016
Rebecca's oeuvre is trifold, embracing photography, artworks, whilst demonstrating a strong interest in surrealism, narrative and the nature of things. Utilising a wide variety of sources and processes she is able to affect various meanings and transformations. This lends her work the notion of moving through time whilst employing reference as a counterpoint and contradiction as a visual tool. This she further strengthens by mixing traditional with modern reference points and by combining photographic styles, found art and installation.
Rebecca's current interest lies in storytelling photography where she is focused on capturing movement, tone light, and shadows utilising the semiotics and signs conveyed by her primary subjects. This is an intuitive process, an internal dialogue.