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2nd Art Exhibit at Alchemix.

This time around we present a collaboration project between Nick McGavern and Sound Artist, Tidy Kid. The filming of a certain visual performance will commence this week. An exhibit will be held this Sunday, the 9th of March at Alchemix. It will include the set used in the film, the props in their aftermath, paintings and sculptures used surrounding the performance piece and a music track, created and then manipulated live during the filming.

Originally created to be performed at the Tivoli Theater in December, this show will finally be on film and we hope to see you at our gallery for champagne to enjoy the aftermath and the distorted visuals of a piece which has just unfolded. Filming will be complete once the doors are opened at 2pm, 9th March. Please RSVP by emailing or calling Marly Luske on 0407 630 770 or sound@alchemix.com.au. Looking forward to seeing many of you there.

NEWS: It went really well! Here are some shots from the exhibition:

People Watching

Tidy Kid (80's hip hopa) and Nick McGavern (Tengu)

7 video camera's were utilized in the filming of the main performance

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Following is a short article from each of the artists, indirectly influenced by their undertakings in this performance project.

Restricting Restrictions

As a child we would have all experienced restrictions. Whether by our parents or peers saying no to the things we want to do or, just in our abilities as a child. The subconscious can take things very literal when remembering repeated events or words. This can cause a world of self doubt whether in ability or in ideas. Just from hearing the words, “no that's not right”, many times, can leave a child believing that it is wrong much more often than right. A bad review from an influential parent figure can be detrimental to a child's creative thought process. As the child cannot explain ones actions to the depths of their intention the idea of rejection could terminate all thoughts involved with the creative process. The restrictions of life have been drilled into the mind of all and the few that haven't can live a life of uninhibited freedom of self expression and achievement. With in the creative procedure we run into boundaries and criticism all placed in front of us by ourselves. Or so we think. I believe these have been placed here through the governing of actions delivered to us by our elders and our peers at an early age to “normalize” us.

This art work is a way to realize this by returning to the uninhibited world of a child and to release a bit of the “demon” with no restriction. By doing this the hopes are, to release the demon from its cage permanently for it to live a glorious life without restriction.

Nick McGavern: 01/03/08

Hey, where did the audience go?

Hmmmm, are unconditioned thoughts really that absurd? You can laugh and cry at them all you want, but when you leave your judgment aside, they can form glorious unrestricted expressions of truth. These stems of truth, if let to be realized by the beholder, create an always occurring motion. They send you deeper and deeper into the darkness of society, which when inverted, is simply lightness. Oh my, what a lovely positive slant. Cough!

To allow this to happen is usually harder and harder as you grow up and become, mature. When you allow yourself to play the game of life with less restrictions, you find things start to invert allot. Aspects of normal life start to seem hilarious and terrifying, whilst the rest is simply there, unraveling it's packaging and rewarding you again and again. If a natural amount of humanity and respect is also placed into this potion, the game of life can be quite dandy. How to act in life seems to flow with more ease.

Performance fragments is a project of letting these child like reactions on life free. It also demonstrates highly contrasting approaches to this style of expression, neither passing judgment on the other.

Tidy Kid: 04/03/08

Last years Exhibits below:

Oil Artist, Nick Mcgavern. If you are interested in attending, please email Marly at sound@alchemix.com.au.

Press Article Below:

Here I am, sitting in an expensive club, sipping overpriced drinks and listening to mediocre music. It's a soulless little hive where the masses swarm to basically get screwed (in more ways than one). I need some culture with my scotch. I need some excitement, some fucking art!!! I am waiting for Nick McGavern to show up and enlighten me a little bit so I don't go home
completely convinced that we are all done for. Here he comes, in high doses. Nick McGavern is an Australian born, Bermuda raised contemporary artist, about to have his first exhibition here in Brisbane. It's being held, of all places, at Alchemix Recording Studios in Woolloongabba on the 25th of August. This is only fitting, considering his recent artistic collaborations with some of Brisbane's finest musicians, including The Red Paintings, Tidy Kid and The Black Arts. All of this, as well as furthering his own artistic
experimentation with stereo optics, anamorphic perspective and colour.

Anyone who has ever met McGavern will know it is his vast life experiences that contribute to his full-blooded approach to art as we know it, and as he perceives it. McGavern can passionately discuss all facets of life and art over an entire intoxicating night, but the fun is in hearing his accent change gradually with every passing drink. I started this interview with an Australian artist but finished with a Bermudian Tony Montana. McGavern was born in Sydney but has spent almost half his life on the small island of Bermuda, immersed in the art and drug culture. His lists of influences include Francis Bacon, Jeffrey Smart, high doses of L.S.D and suicidal mushrooms. In his time abroad, Mcgavern worked on a private island for an eccentric millionaire doctor, taking care of his vast array of antiques and masterpieces. He is one of very few people to have had access to the good doctor's secret artillery bunkers, filled with works by Jackson Pollock, Monet and endless 18th century English style paintings. Nick returned to Australian soils in 2002 , in order to study visual fine arts and continue working on his own surreal style of visual arts. More recently he has created pieces for musicians Tidy Kid and The Black Arts, as well as donning a Little Red Riding Hood outfit to paint live art
on stage for The Red Paintings.

Nick Mcgavern's first solo exhibition will be the start of a successful career for this local visual artist. Doors open 2pm to late, with champagne and hors d'oeuvres, on the 25th of August at Alchemix Recording Studios, RSVP for a private invite by emailing Marly at sound@alchemix.com.au. You may want to get in quick before, like most great artists, he dies before his time and you can't afford his works anymore.

Written by J. Eckersley

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Other artists currently exhibiting: Currently we have art hanging in our studio from Paul Parker, visit his site at revolvagallery.com ......

Ten years ago Paul Parker acted on an impulse to paint. He entered his garage, fashioned a crude canvas and began to create. Thus grew a passion for painting and Paul Parker's life as a constant creator and observer of life's quirks and forms. With a natural capacity for creating cubist biomorphic shapes, Parker builds an energetic field of figuration. His
paintings are vibrant textures, alluding to land, water, sun, and tribal markings. His works thrive on the freedom of mark making. The brush strokes are immediate and exude the power of their application.

Always a self-taught painter, Parker takes inspiration from music, memory and raw emotion. Parker's optimistic stream-of-conscious thinking comes through in his images. Obvious is a constant exploration - a pursuing of mystery and creation, which engages his audience as well. Along with his explorative marks is a complex structure of color. His forms recreate landscape spaces with all the spatial sophistication of Picasso's Figures on the Beach. Paul Parker is an Australian, whose surroundings on both the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast appear an influence. In Australia, Paul Parker exhibits with several galleries and is preparing for his first major commission and his first exhibition in new york.