Hannah Williamson’s art practice is lens based, focusing on photography, video, projection, and audio to create installations. Her work incorporates valued family photographs, videos, postcards, paintings, and objects from her grandparent’s collection, along with found and recorded audio. Her artwork is based on her grandparent's experiences when living in Brazil for 30 years as missionaries. Using family photographs and film footage to explore the Brazilian landscape, portraits, travel, and buildings which show the colonial history still evident today. She combines old and new images, projecting them onto her mother and grandmother and recently adding herself into the work to explore the female line within her family, DNA, and the translation of memories through different generations. 

Her artistic process involves rephotographing and videoing imagery exploring detail and projecting them onto surfaces and objects to create layers developing into atmospheric installations. She uses projection because it is a physical process representing her psychological process of choosing memories from the past. The colours she uses vary from aged tones from 1960s imagery to bold colours associated with Brazil. 

She combines sound from the rainforest with her grandmother speaking in Portuguese and English about colonial history and her experiences in Brazil. The main influence for this exhibition is her grandparents, however Fiona Tan’s video installations and themes of memory, time and her layered cultural background have informed her practice. This is because of her family's history migrating back and forth from Northern Ireland to Brazil. Her artistic process has been a personal and poetic exploration of migration, memory, language, and their place within colonial history.