13 million Women, Non-binary and Trans folk are going through menopause in the UK today, 1 in 100 of them will be under the age of 40.

This work examines how menopause and POI (Premature Ovarian Insufficiency) is managed, misunderstood, and monetised through portraiture, botanical photography, and sculptural installation.

The portraits centre women and trans people navigating the silence that so often surrounds their symptoms. Their stillness is mirrored in photographs of medicinal plants - Black Cohosh, St John’s Wort, Red Clover - long marketed as natural cures, yet offering little more than hope in place of care. The work asks what happens when medicine fails to listen, and silence becomes the standard prescription.

Suspended from the ceiling, fans made from antidepressant information leaflets become quiet acts of rebellion - objects that once instructed compliance, now repurposed as gestures of cooling, resistance, and survival.

When healthcare dismisses or delays effective treatment, those in need are pushed toward the wellness industry’s empty promises, spending on supplements, tonics, and tinctures with no proven efficacy. The result is a modern menopause tax - a system that profits from neglect, turning suffering into a marketplace.

The work draws on the visual language of museums, pharmacies, and herbariums to question how we catalogue women’s bodies and measure their worth. Herbal labels, specimen notes and plant markers borrow the language of care - dosages, growing instructions, side effects- revealing the quiet parallels between tending a plant and tending a woman expected to endure.

Through portraits, plants, and protest, this work calls for a reimagining of care: one rooted in honesty, equality, and the radical act of listening.