A field of wheat fills an office floor beneath fluorescent lighting; part of WHAC's public artwork in Perth

WHAC brings a wheat field into an office building in Perth

In the fluorescent light of a Perth office floor, a field of wheat interrupts the familiar geometry of desks, windows and ceiling panels. there is nothing you need to do in here., a public artwork by Wongan Hills Arts Co. (WHAC), brings the Western Australian Wheatbelt into the city as a place to pause, listen and recalibrate.

Hundreds of thousands of wheat stems cover the interior at 1 Mill Street, while an immersive soundscape draws on the contrasting environments of commercial Perth and the regional Wheatbelt. The installation makes the office feel briefly elsewhere: the landscape is present in the room, while the city’s everyday pace remains just beyond its windows.

Wide view of wheat covering an office floor under a grid of fluorescent lights

WHAC's wheat field artwork shown on the Yagan Square screen in Perth

The wheat field artwork illuminates a building at Yagan Square in Perth at night

The installation title appears on a Rokeby Road shopfront window at night

A shopfront window frames a small wheat field and the installation title

Poster for WHAC's there is nothing you need to do in here public art installation

A landscape out of place

The work begins with a deliberate mismatch. Wheat is associated with open country, seasonal labour and the scale of agricultural land; the office is an enclosed, climate-controlled environment built around routine. Placing one inside the other turns that contrast into the project’s central experience. Visitors walk through the field beneath the building’s unchanged fluorescent ceiling, encountering an unexpected rural landscape without leaving the central business district.

WHAC founder Alex Miller leaves the interpretation open. “We’re not particularly interested in telling people what to think. We’d rather give them something to think about,” he says. The installation’s title offers a related invitation: visitors are not given a task to complete, but space to slow down and attend to the sensory shift around them.

Connecting Perth with the Wheatbelt

WHAC describes the project as a first step in building a cultural destination in Wongan Hills, around two hours north-east of Perth. The organisation aims to connect metropolitan audiences with regional Western Australia through contemporary art experiences shaped by the Wheatbelt’s landscapes and communities. Here, the work brings that regional identity into the capital as an encounter rather than an image alone.

The project extends beyond the office interior into the city’s public image. WHAC’s wheat field appeared on the Yagan Square screen and in a Rokeby Road shopfront, carrying the installation’s rural-urban juxtaposition into other everyday settings across Perth.

Visiting the installation

there is nothing you need to do in here. is open at 1 Mill Street, Perth, until 11 October 2026. Daytime sessions are free with an RSVP and run from 11am to 2pm Monday to Friday and noon to 5pm on weekends. WHAC has also added selected evening sessions, scheduled on Wednesday and Thursday nights through 8 October.

Director Matt Dicosta describes the project as a way to connect city audiences with landscapes beyond the capital. By bringing a field into a commercial building, WHAC makes that connection tangible, while leaving visitors to decide what the interruption means to them.