Born in Italy in 1993 and based in Naarm/Melbourne, Rudi Williams is an artist and teacher. Her practice is centred around learning historic and contemporary image-making processes to create works from her archive of still and moving, analogue and digital images that she has been making since 2008. Her exhibitions often pair, and contrast images taken at different times, in disparate places, with varying photographic forms to contemplate her own history and heritage in relation to concepts of memory, pace, the passing of time and the archive. Her work is elliptical and layered, often depicting reflections, visual anomalies, distorted architectural details and residue of human presence on surfaces. These individual works are woven together to construct site specific installations; constellations that dissect the mechanisms of image making as sculptural forms to reference the history and legacy of representation and the context images are read in.

In 2022 Williams made a short experimental film titled Breath with pianist and composer Grace Ferguson. The film uses a blend of super 8 and digital formats to coalesce with high and low fidelity sound recordings of compositions made by Ferguson between 2017-2020. 

Her stills photography practice extends to public commissions, portraiture, documentation and camera operation. She consults on select historic photographic processes. Previous clients include: Shelley Lasica, Darren Sylvester, Metro Tunnel and Liquid Architecture.