In Gallery 2, Goulburn based artist Poppy Perry presents The Landscape Devours, The Landscape Restores. Containing painted works on canvas alongside animated video, the exhibition delves into the dual nature of the Australian environment—its power to both devastate and regenerate. Fire, water, earth, and air appear throughout the exhibition as active, shaping forces rather than passive scenery. Each artwork captures a moment of elemental transformation: fire clearing ground for renewal, water carving terrain, earth shifting beneath us, and air revealing itself only through movement and sound. Together, they reflect the cyclical energies that define the landscapes we inhabit and the internal landscapes we carry.

Grounded in lived experience, these works trace moments of vulnerability, resilience, and connection. Tapestry of the Southern Highlands to the Coast symbolises abundance and growth, marking the beginning of the artist’s love story of two locations connecting. Consumed by Flame reflects Perry’s experience of being trapped in Narooma as bushfires encircled her family, displaying fire’s capacity to both destroy and reset the land. In Reverberations on the Tide, the artist explores water's continuous movement, transparency and ability to reflect the expansive sky. The artist deeply values water’s ability to transform, reflect, and soothe after growing up in a rural landscape where water was often absent due to drought. While The Invisible Thread, an animated digital illustration revealing the connective yet intangible forces that bind people, places, moments and the elements together.

 Perry invites the audience into an immersive environment where elemental forces act upon both land and self. The Landscape Devours, The Landscape Restores asks us to consider how the landscape marks us, reshapes us, and ultimately restores us within its enduring cycles.