Reason and Rhyme

Reason and Rhyme investigates the urge to structure and channel creative production through systems, grids and frameworks. It explores the urge to locate oneself within the map or the doctrine, and to impose rules and structures across creative practice. It investigates how these systematic devices both contain and channel creative enterprise, as well as plotting and contextualising it.

Artists include: Damiano Bertoli, Julian Dashper, Richard Frater & Roman Mitch, Starlie Geikie, Simon Morris, Campbell Patterson, Hanna Tai, Mimi Tong, Jake Walker.

Through applying ‘objective’ systems in creative processes each of the artists in Reason and Rhyme distinguishes, articulates or uncovers content in the work. Whether this pull towards systems and frameworks is a by-product of the reduced status of the object in contemporary art, or a result of the general tendency towards deconstruction within creative practice, each of these artists enlists a rigidity to give form to their ideas.