This is a space between two colonial landscapes. The new Bendigo Art Gallery is located between View Street and Rosalind Park. Our proposal provides a landscape that is a companion to the rejuvenated Gallery, that grounds it in place and that provides a new landscape language that can negotiate between the colonial civic of the street and the exotic picturesque of the park. We see that new language as being an old language – made from the elements of the site’s pre-colonial ecology. The landscape of the Bendigo Gallery will be an immersive threshold that allows visitors to leave the familiar space of the city, to change the speed of their body and to prepare for exposure to great art. Our approach foregrounds notions of designing from Country. The View Street address is a space that acknowledges the heritage of the Bolton Court Gallery, but its former materials of asphalt, turf and European trees are replaced by a restored ecology of Box Ironbark Forest. This is a new garden that can be used by Traditional Custodians as a codex – a place for keeping and demonstrating Indigenous Knowledge about foods, seasonality and materiality, as well as being a site for displaying art. The landscape scheme, developed in collaboration with the Dja Dja Wurrung, contributes to local biodiversity by massively increasing the number and diversity of plant species included within the City.