Charlotte Warne Thomas

Charlotte Warne Thomas is a London-based visual artist. She works as a lecturer and advocate for artists’ fair pay, and is completing a PhD in Fine Art at Kingston University, funded by Techne AHRC Doctoral
Training Partnership.

Her cross-disciplinary practice draws on personal and historical narratives to address the hierarchies of value society places on different aspects of labour, work and care. She explores these relationships through a feminist lens, and with a focus on ‘reproductive labour’ (how the unpaid work of mothers and women carers underpins the economy without social or financial acknowledgement). Her work highlights the power relations within a Capitalist system where productivity, profit and professional acumen are venerated, while the truly essential work of birthing, caring for- and raising children and families is overlooked and de-valued.

She exhibits locally, nationally and internationally, including Exeter Phoenix, GPS Gallery Soho, Deptford X, David Roberts Art Foundation, Phoenix (Brighton), Woodend Gallery (Scarborough); Fundación Santander
(Madrid, Spain); Frans Masareel Centrum (Kasterlee, Belgium). In 2025 her work was selected for the Exeter Contemporary Open; the Soho Open; the RBSA Photography Prize 2025 exhibition; and for the online exhibition This is Essential Work; and long-listed for the inaugural Women in Art prize.

Charlotte has a background in teaching FE and HE, and is a lecturer in Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts. Her research report ‘Artists as Workers’ (2021), shone a light on structural inequalities in the artworld; she was subsequently consultant editor for ‘Structurally F~cked’ (2023), a seminal report into artists’ pay and conditions by Industria, published by a-n. She has written for ArtReview, DACS, Artquest and presented her findings to the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Visual Arts (APPGVA) in an effort to improve the arts policy landscape. She is a certified Powered by Diversity Ambassador, and runs crit group Peer Sessions with friend and fellow artist Kate Pickering.