Michael Needham is a Melbourne based visual artist and lecturer whose practice primarily incorporates drawing and sculptural installation.
Among other things, Needham’s work explores myth, belief and residual melancholia in the contemporary psyche. His recent doctorate, Incarnate: presence and vestige in contemporary art practice, is a sculptural and conceptual exploration on Incarnation, through which parallel issues of representation in art and theology are discussed.
Michael Needham is represented by Daine Singer, Melbourne.
image:
Measure of Deflection (toward the other), 2011
Plaster, mirror, lead, marble, steel bracket, copper wire, enamel
42 x 18 x 11 cm
Among other things, Needham’s work explores myth, belief and residual melancholia in the contemporary psyche. His recent doctorate, Incarnate: presence and vestige in contemporary art practice, is a sculptural and conceptual exploration on Incarnation, through which parallel issues of representation in art and theology are discussed.
Michael Needham is represented by Daine Singer, Melbourne.
image:
Measure of Deflection (toward the other), 2011
Plaster, mirror, lead, marble, steel bracket, copper wire, enamel
42 x 18 x 11 cm
