An artist, lecturer and advocate for artists' fair pay, whose work investigates the relationships between labour, work and care to disrupt perceptions of value through a feminist lens.

Charlotte Warne Thomas is based in London and is completing her practice-based PhD in Fine Art at Kingston University, funded by Techne (AHRC). Her PhD research focuses on invisible labour, both mothers'* unpaid familial care and that of women artists, whose work continues to be overlooked and undervalued by a market-oriented art world. The way these two inequalities intersect, and especially the role of ‘love’ in both unpaid domestic care and (women) artists’ work in relation to the concepts of reproductive labour and emotional labour is a core concern. [*The term ‘mother’ here refers to primary caregivers, regardless of reproductive role or gender identity.]

Charlotte Warne Thomas is an Associate Lecturer in Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts; a trained mentor and certified Powered by Diversity Ambassador, and runs long-standing crit group Peer Sessions, with fellow artist Kate Pickering. She graduated from Goldsmiths MFA in 2009, and has exhibited nationally and internationally including Deptford X (2023); APT Gallery, David Roberts Art Foundation, Focal Point (Southend-on-Sea), Phoenix (Brighton); Fundación Santander (Madrid, Spain); Studio X (Mumbai, India); Artplay (Moscow, Russia); Frans Masareel Centrum (Kasterlee, Belgium). 

She is passionate about overcoming structural inequalities and barriers to access in the art world, and was consultant editor for Structurally F~cked, a pivotal report into artists’ pay and conditions published by a-n. She has since presented at the All Party Parliamentary Group for Visual Arts; at Tate committees and has written for Art Review, DACS, the Autonomy Institute and Artquest on making the Visual Arts sector more equitable.

This website is currently under construction; find up to date news on work and projects on instagram: @CharlotteWarneThomas

charlottewarnethomas{at}gmail.com