Mitchell Donaldson and Dan McCabe: Seeing Things

Overview

If Brisbane is good for one thing, it's breeding top-notch, a-grade artists. Our local art scene is bustling, with artists, such as Shida, making it big on the international scene from humble Brisbane beginnings.

Local artists Dan McCabe and Mitchell Donaldson, co-founders of Addition Artist-Run Initiative, have well and truly bolted themselves on Brisbane's healthy list of emerging talented artists.

Interrogating notions of form, stasis and presence surrounding memorial practices, Donaldson’s work gently dives into the potential of subtle interventions to unmake found objects and images. McCabe, on the other hand, encourages his viewers to approach his compositions that mold the preconceived understandings of an image, with great scrutiny by altering their own material and visual stability.

Their latest exhibition, Seeing Things, will present a wide variety of new work from both these provoking artists. Indeed, it is the creative partnership between the two that ensures the rigorous critiquing of each other's work and practices, in turn creating work, and an exhibition, nothing short of perfection.