Working Spaces is an artist collective and research group exploring Painting’s spatial context. Katrina Blannin and Catherine Ferguson are painters of the flat surface; Moyra Derby, Della Gooden and Jo McGonigal work dimensionally, with Painting in mind. With ‘VERNACULAR’ as the theme for The Colchester Expo at the Minories Gallery we were prompted to consider the vernacular of creative exchange inside a collective. The collective developed an installation which was a mix of ready-made paintings and objects and works made in situ, in response to the space and to each other's work. I exhibited a painting, a photomontage and made a wall drawing. The Expo was an initiative of SLUICE, a non-profit artist and curator-led organisation that has worked exclusively with other non-profit artist and curator-led initiatives since 2011. Sluice strategically adopts structures in order to showcase artist, curator as well as emergent discourses, projects and galleries.

Inaugural Colchester International Expo.