Michael Needham’s practice fuses drawing, object-making and sculptural installation that responds to specific sites and cultural contexts. His work explores myth, belief and residual melancholia in the contemporary psyche, repeatedly focusing on uncanny sensibilities around mimicry and memorialisation. Needham’s works often channel remnants of corporeality no longer present, mimicking familiar historical forms in unfamiliar contexts as a form of reflective critique. 

Needham has shown nationally and internationally in numerous group and solo exhibitions. He has a BFA + (Hons) from Monash University (2002), and PhD (Fine Art) from the Australian Catholic University (2010). Needham lives and works in Kyneton / Melbourne / Kulin country.