Henrietta Williams, The Secret Security Guard, 2023

AiR’s The Valley Room

Henrietta Williams interviewed with G4S in January 2012, and after training, worked as a security guard and x-ray screener based at the Olympic Park for the duration of the games. Alongside fulfilling her duties for G4S she also worked as an undercover reporter for the Guardian writing a column called ‘The Secret Security Guard’.

Henrietta has recovered source material and ephemera from her attic and revisited the project through a new text ‘Retracing the footsteps of The Secret Security Guard’ and an installation in The Valley Room.