Michael Needham is a Melbourne/Kyneton 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 and its postcolonial incarnations.


main image:
Night Light (detail), 2022
part of Melancanny, Stockroom, Kyneton April 2 - May 8 2022

resin, hybrid fibreglass (basalt, hessian, fibreglass), steel, slip cast stoneware, adapted vintage sconce, electric candle, cotton cloth, old hoodie, pigments, acrylic lacquer

photography: Lakshal Perera