Canberra’s political processes and secrets have up until recently all passed through the muscle memory and brains of the women who typed them. The technology changed but the structure remained the same. Material was transmitted from (largely male) protagonist to protagonist through the mediation of women using qwerty keyboards. Not much attention seems to have been paid to the fact that they were party to many secrets and revelations in the course of the century.
Documents obtained through freedom of information may be redacted now, but intelligent women saw them in their original state.

The work I made for the centenary exhibition celebrates and recognises this work and plays with ideas of transparency and opacity: clarity and obfuscation. The four works trace the changing nature of the same work from secretary through the typing pool to personal assistant.