This print was created in conjunction with the Glasgow Print Studio 50th Anniversary Here & Now Legacy Project. "This etching is part of a series of old typewriter etchings I’ve been making for several years. This particular etching was inspired by an 1876 Sholes Glidden typewriter that I saw in the National Museum of Scotland. It was donated to the museum by Ethelinda Hadwen - a suffragette who opened up typewriting offices in Edinburgh employing women. The typewriter was both a tool for suffragette campaigning and one of the key technologies associated with women going into the workplace and moving into the public sphere."

Fiona Watson was born in Newfoundland, Canada in 1952. She studied she received a Biological Sciences BSc at Leicester University, graduating in 1974. Watson is an artist with a diverse body of work including etching, digital imaging, photography, painting, video and land art . A fascination with patterns, rhythms, forms and colours in nature initially led to a career in biological sciences, which still influences her work today. She has been a member of the Glasgow Print Studio for several years exhibiting nationally and internationally.