Joel Spring and Elisapeta Heta. Image courtesy of City Gallery Wellington.

Joel Spring and Elisapeta Heta

Joel Spring (Wiradjuri) and Elisapeta Heta (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Hāmoa, Waikato-Tanui) present on their practices and activism in both art and architecture.

Joel Spring is a Wiradjuri man raised between Redfern and Alice Springs who works across research, activism, architecture, installation and speculative projects. At present, his work focuses on the contested narratives of Sydney’s and Australia’s urban culture and indigenous history in the face of ongoing colonisation.

Elisapeta Heta is a Senior Associate at architecture firm Jasmax, and is an artist, singer, and member of Ngā Aho, network of Māori design professionals, and ex Co-chair of Architecture+Women NZ. With her collaborator John Miller, she has just been announced as one of the artists for the Biennale of Sydney 2020.

Joel is in Wellington as part of Te Whare Hēra Eavesdropping Residency. The residency is a partnership with City Gallery Wellington, supported by Liquid Architecture through Creative Victoria’s International Engagement programme.

Te Whare Hēra Eavesdropping Residency comprises a series of short residencies in the city for exhibiting artists based in Victoria, Australia. Throughout the exhibition, artists and curators will visit Wellington to make new work, deliver talks and connect with the community.