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:
Self Portrait as a Mummified Head (detail), 2021
part of Melancanny, Stockroom, Kyneton, 2022

resin (polyester, epoxy), recycled timber, ash, human hair, pigments, stoneware, reclaimed artificial cemetery flowers, inherited doilies, velvet, stainless steel, acrylic lacquer, wax

photography: Lakshal Perera