Transplantations: ‘Unfolding Rose’, ‘Signatures’, ‘Borders’ exhibition

BACKGROUND: The works are part of the major Architectural development in 2020, Springvale Community Precinct. Carter is the artist, and co-artist on ‘Unfolding Rose’ with Artillion, ACT. They integrate cultural/environmental heritage into infrastructure, and are novel in interlinking the narrative across 3 sculptural sites, in response to a question by lead custodians of local multicultural history. T CONTRIBUTION: The works were conceived together. ‘Signatures’, 2 curving walls of etched script in the Exhibition Hall, in 17 community languages, a ‘Welcome’ in 1970 by the then Mayor. They are a ‘write back’ - reformulating ideas of hospitality in different cultures. 'Borders' evokes countries of origin as continuous coastline in a font suggesting break and renewal in the migrant journey in 60 phrases, evoking different stages of the experience. It drew on life-writing, composed as poetic word clusters. ‘Unfolding Rose’, a double spiral of ‘petals’ located in the Exhibition Hall, interprets the hybrid rose developed for the community Association, suggesting how multicultural legacy unfolds.The design research is outside conventional procurement processes: i) wide community consultation, including indigenous groups with ii) intercultural research, for an artistically significant letter field, eidetically and haptically memorable. ii) collaboration for suspended work with key engineering challenges, visualisation technology, materials and hingings. iii) 2 fields of scripts, ‘Signatures’, presented anamorphically so 2 ideal viewpoints link the work with the river red gum grove at the centre of the development and the old Town Hall. SIGNIFICANCE The President of the Spirit of Enterprise Association wrote, ‘You captured so well this amazing story and extended the boundaries we had been working to in ways we had never imagined.’