Collaborative work between artist Trish O’Shea and orthopaedic surgeon Professor Mark Wilkinson.

ADJOIN is a project that explores how the personal experience can be ‘placed’ within and along side the clinical and factual. ADJOIN makes visual the physical, emotional and psychological affects that suffering from osteoarthritis has upon the self, one’s identity and experience of the world. Focused primarily upon my own experience of the condition, the intention is to highlight and raise more awareness of the condition of arthritis and reveal aspects of joint replacement (specifically knee replacement).