Artist, lecturer, parent and advocate for artists' fair pay and conditions, 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 a practice-based PhD in Fine Art at Kingston University, funded by Techne (AHRC). Her practice explores the heirarchies of value placed on differnt kinds of labour, with a particualr focus on invisible labour, both in terms of 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.

Her work is often based on photography, and includes performance, sculpture, collage, AV, and text, which she harvests from a wide range of sources including advertising and social media. She often uses gold, exploiting its seductive and versatile materiality to articulate ideas of the solidity and flux of value in different kinds of labour, in an increasingly financialized global economy.

She 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; APT Gallery, David Roberts Art Foundation, ASC Gallery, Chelsea Space (all London, UK); Exeter Phoenix (Exeter); Woodend Gallery (Scarborough); RBSA Gallery (Birmingham); Focal Point (Southend-on-Sea), Phoenix (Brighton); Fundación Santander (Madrid, Spain); Studio X (Mumbai, India); Artplay (Moscow, Russia); Frans Masareel Centrum (Kasterlee, Belgium). So far in 2025 her work has been selected for the Exeter Contemporary Open, the RBSA Photography Prize 2025 exhibition, and for the online exhibition This is Essential Work. She is a PhD candidate at Kingston University, and a trained mentor and certified Powered by Diversity Ambassador, and runs Peer Sessions, a long-standing post-graduate crit group.

Warne Thomas 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.