19.11.2026—13.12.2026
Exhibition Opening:
Wednesday 18th November, 6–8pm
AND IT WAS NEVER QUITE ENOUGH
is an exhibition that explores the emotional register of intensity
in our lives. Drawing on the French philosopher Tristan Garcia’s notion of intensity as an aestheticised, affective charge, the exhibition reflects on our capacity for amplification amidst the pervasive dysphoria and overwhelm of contemporary life. For Garcia, intensity was an ideal, but today, the desire for even greater intensity, for life to be ever more saturated with affect, seems at odds with our capacity to experience it. Burnt-out, desensitised and with our dopamine receptors fried, intensity can feel less enlivening than it does exacting.
Pushing against collective apathy, the exhibition attempts to propel us out of prolonged desensitisation toward a greater degree of feeling and sensation. Without straying into a “new sincerity”, it presents six artists whose work resists the very things that dull and flatten our experience, untethering us from the situational comforts of irony, pacification and cynicism. In various ways, each artist evokes intensity as a
mutable force exerting its magnetic pull on certain moments. Intensity emerges not only as a visual or sonic register, but as a psychic state - invigorating, seductive, and, at times, unbearable.
Hero Image Caption: Sarah Walker, Panic Stations, 2026, 16 Channel Work, Dimensions Variable, Photography by Christian Capurro.
Annabel Brown is a curator and arts writer based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. She is particularly interested in themes of time, subjectivity and precarity in techno-social life, as well as experiences in which ambiguity, simulacrum and elusiveness unfold and become increasingly dominant.
Annie Wallwork is an artist living and working on Wurundjeri land, whose practice spans drawing, painting and sculpture. Concerned with somatic representation and deep material exploration, her work examines ways of meaning-making outside of conventional language models; how the resonance of feeling can be made visible. Autonomous, osmotic and relational forces of matter, material and the immaterial form central features of investigation. Material and artist enact upon each other in symbiotic relationship to transform outcomes beyond predetermination.
Benjamin Bradsaw is a sound artist, composer and audio designer living and working on Wurundjeri land. His work is grounded in meditative listening practices, sound ecology and psychoacoustics. Oscillating between ambience and turbulence, he explores postminimalism, granular synthesis and generative
systems. Through conventional and non-conventional processing, his practice lingers in a space of tension
between structure and disorder.
Instagram: @spring___hill
Camille Cargill works with a trauma-informed approach to withholding in the practice of art. Through practice, she conjures emotional landscapes from occasionally personal archives, and attempts to embody the corporeal and cerebral scars that exist as after images.
Instagram: @camille.cargill
Julien Te Purei Comer-Kleine is a Naarm Melbourne–based sculptural artist working across aluminium, glass, neon and sound. From his homebuilt foundry, he explores relationships between sites and materials, drawing on geology and technology to give form to imperceptible forces around and beneath us. Of Ngāti Rangitihi descent, he responds in recent work to the geothermal landscape of Rotorua. A Victorian College of the Arts Honours graduate, he works in its Sculpture Department and sits on the KINGS ARI board.
Instagram: @comerkleine
Sarah Walker is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist and writer. Her work uses comedy and surprise to create generous encounters with tensions around anxiety and future fear. She works primarily with video and text, and collaborates across theatre and live art. She has a PhD from RMIT, where she teaches in Expanded Media Arts.
Instagram: @sarahtakesphotos
Zane Edwards (b. 2000 Tweed Heads, Australia) is an artist that explores the phenomenon of being witnessed. Edwards holds an MFA from the Victorian College of the Arts and his first solo exhibition “Eventually, I’ll Confess, I’ve Just Been Walking Into A Loving Nowhere” was held at Sutton Gallery Project Space, 2025.
Instagram: @yeszane