Vernacular noun. 1. The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region… the terminology used by people belonging to a specified group or engaging in a specialized activity: gardening vernacular. 2. Architecture concerned with domestic and functional rather than monumental buildings: buildings in which the Gothic merged into farmhouse vernacular… spoken as one’s mother tongue: not learned or imposed as a second language… from the Latin vernaculus ‘domestic, native’ (from verna ‘home born slave’). OED

This is the premise of the exhibition ‘Home Born Slaves’ proposed by Museum Vaults for Zoo – to argue for the richest and most critical species of local artist and artwork as globally viable. All of the artists in Museum vaults were born in and practice out of Sunderland – a city in the North East of England on the peripheries of globalisation and cosmopolitanization.