Joel Sherwood-Spring

Joel Sherwood-Spring is a Wiradjuri man raised between Redfern and Alice Springs. Sydney based Architecture graduate and interdisciplinary artist working between solo works and FutureMethod studio. Working across research, activism, architecture, installation and speculative projects. Currently focussing on the contested narratives of Sydney’s and Australia’s urban culture and indigenous history in the face of ongoing colonisation.

Joel is developing a work called 'Hearing Loss' as part of Liquid Architecture/Melbourne Law School program 'Eavesdropping' in Melbourne 2018. The sound installation explores the racial and (post)colonial politics of hearing loss and especially of the extremely high prevalence of otitis media amongst Indigenous Australians, something his mother has been affected by.