Joel Sherwood Spring

Joel Sherwood Spring is a Wiradjuri anti-disciplinary artist based in Sydney/Gadigal/Wangal lands. He works collaboratively on projects that examine ways of seeing Country through technology and desires for Indigeneity. His work confronts and channels both the desire for land and minerals at the core of our national identity and what today appear as 'progressive' identity formations. Sherwood Spring explores the potential of Indigenous materialist readings of art and architecture towards repatriation, reparation, and return of land. He is learning how to employ art making, exhibition making, publishing, and pedagogy within what is recognised as black or Indigenous studies. 

Sherwood Spring received a Master of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney in 2018. He is a Co-Director of Future Method Studio, a collaborative and interdisciplinary practice working across architecture, installation and speculative projects. He was awarded the 2023 Church Emerging Art Prize. Recent exhibitions include The 24th Biennale of Sydney: Ten Thousand Suns (2024); objects testify, UTS Gallery, Sydney (2023); How I See It: Blak Art and Film, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne (2022-2023); 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial:Ceremony, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2022); among others.