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About the Artist

Miranda Wickett is a Canadian paramedical artist, somatic practitioner, and breast health advocate based in London, Ontario. Through Underpinnings Studio, she creates participatory artworks that explore body literacy, illness, healing, identity, and recognition. Her work invites audiences to slow down, reflect, and find connection through shared experience.

Her guiding philosophy is simple:

Recognition, not correction.

“Some stories are too important to disappear”

Experience The Archive of Us at the National Menopause Show.

The artwork will evolve over the weekend as hundreds of stories become one living archive.

A sculptural dress-like installation made from hundreds of handwritten paper tags suspended from gold rings. Visitors are invited to add their own reflections on menopause, creating an evolving artwork over the course of the show.

Throughout the National Menopause Show, visitors are invited to pause, reflect, and contribute a handwritten truth, memory, hope, or piece of wisdom to an evolving sculptural artwork.

One by one, these individual voices become something larger than themselves—a living archive of the menopause experience.

No names.

No diagnoses.

No expectations.

Only honest moments collected with care.

Some reflections will speak about loss.

Some about relief.

Some about laughter.

Some about finally being understood.

By the end of the weekend, hundreds of handwritten stories will have transformed the sculpture into a collective portrait of menopause – created not by one artist, but by every person who chose to participate.

“Because recognition begins when we discover our story isn’t ours alone.”