Hilary Williams is a Dublin-based artist whose work encompassing performance, video, installation, photography and drawing is motivated by the fragility of mortality. She holds a BA in Fine Art and an MA in Visual Arts Practices and her previous exhibitions and projects include Bulk (Concourse, Dun Laoghaire 2005), ‘In Passing’ (Beyond Performance Tour, Northern Ireland 2005), ‘Excursions’ (Performance Festival, Limerick, 2008) and ‘Drawing The Line’ (Dublin Institute of Technology, 2008). She was an award winner in ‘Sculpture in Context’ (Botanic Gardens and Farmleigh Dublin, 2004) and she has participated in workshops with Nigel Rolfe (Dublin, 2005) Alaistair Mc Lennon and Brian Connolly (Dublin, 2007) and Elvera Santa Maria (Belfast, 2008). Her writing on performance has appeared in the Visual Artists Ireland Newsletter (September 2005).

Hilary's Performance Video "Last Breath" has been screened at the Galway Arts Festival with the art group MART in July 2008, at The Black Box Art venue with Catalyst Art Gallery, Belfast on July 10th, 2008, in Tulka Live art/film/performance exhibition with a screening at live@8 Galway, curated by Aine Phillips, November 18th 2008 and at Gallerie Arts Claims Impulse on December 20th, Lubener str 5 Berlin 2008.