This space can also be used by artists producing installations that relate to the changing exhibitions of the Museum. The front of the Dream Home can be used as an outdoor summer cinema. Behind the empty Dream Home are eight blue poles, recalling Jackson Pollock's painting Blue Poles, a controversial icon of post-modern Australian culture.

Other painters variously referenced in the garden include Arthur Boyd, Sidney Nolan, Jeffrey Smart, Gordon Bennett and Russell Drysdale. Incidentally, like Pollock, the whole map surface is a sort of chaotic painting on the ground plane, the technique used by traditional indigenous Australian artists.

Sitting on a small porch off the front of the Dream Home, and laughing at all of this, is the garden's gnome - a monstrous figure of an 'antipodean', the sort of mythical, mutated people that, back in the Middle Ages, Europeans thought might live in the antipodes.

Whilst we have been conscious of where our work might position itself in terms of local and international landscape architecture, our primary labour has been to make a place richly imbricated with the light and shadow of contemporary Australia.