The 12 - Charlotte Warne Thomas - Artist Talk

Charlotte Warne Thomas is an artist, lecturer, parent, and advocate for fair pay and conditions for artists. Her work investigates the relationships between labour, work, and care, aiming to disrupt conventional perceptions of value through a feminist lens.

She is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD at Kingston University's Contemporary Art Research Group and is a curator and co-founder of Peer Sessions, a nomadic critique group for artists. She exhibits widely and has a studio in Deptford, South East London, where she is part of a thriving artist community.

Through her practice, she is particularly interested in forms of invisible labour: both the unpaid familial care carried out by women (and parents more broadly), and the work of women artists whose contributions continue to be overlooked and undervalued in a market-oriented art world.

Her work spans photography, performance, installation, collage, AV, and text, and seeks to question the hierarchies of value…