The Thousands

Put simply, if you like paint – you will love this show. Symbiosis features two painters who know what they’re doing with a brush. Rohan Fraser and Stephanie Crase are both painting graduates from Adelaide Centre School, but that is really where the similarities end. Sim-bi-ohhhh-sis, you see, means "the living together of unlike organisms". Fraser paints big, Crase paints small. Fraser is loud, red and drippy, Crase is quiet, cool and dark. Fraser does massive, fleshy portraits, Crase does intimate, shadowy vignettes. You get the point.

The common thread exists in disturbing undercurrents that weave through the works, but even these are ‘unlike’. Crase’s disturbing is like eerie white noise, whereas Fraser’s brand of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde crazy. This kind of crazy extends to his ink epics, we’re talking a modern-day Durer, complete with monsters morphing into mountains and castles in the sky. Even if you don’t like paint, you have to appreciate this kind of talent.