Charlotte Warne Thomas, London UK

Solo Exhibitions

2025 M O T H E R C A R E, Lewisham Arthouse, London
2019 Point. Of. View, Atlas House, Ipswich.
2015 LIMITACTION Cass Window Space Gallery, London Met University, London.
2013 willpower, ASC Gallery Window space, London.

Group Exhibitions and Projects

2025
Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, UK (forthcoming)
Theiving, APT Gallery, London
This is Essential Work, Online exhibition
Nurture: An exhibition about motherhood and caregiving, Woodend Gallery, Scarborough, UK
RBSA Photography Prize 2025 exhibition, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham, UK

2024
Wisbech Gallery Open 2024, Wisbech, UK
Moonlighting: A Bit on the Side; APT, London
Who Cares? Newark Works, Bath, UK

2023
Love stories public artwork for Deptford X fringe, London
Play and Compassion; Kingshill House, Dursley, UK.

2022
Performance - Goldmother ASC Gallery; London
Performance - Goldmother Hartslane; London
APT NOW APT Gallery; London.

2021 Art Yard, Deptford X Festival, London

2020 Hearten University Hospital Lewisham & Queen Elizabeth Hospital, London.

2019
Performance at t h e  H O L D , for We Are Publication; Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston, London.
Making representations
; Phoenix Gallery, Brighton.
We.Are.Cut.Up for We Are Publication, Dekalb Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York, USA.
There’ll Never be a Door. You’re Inside; Pieces from the Coleção Teixeira de Freitas, Fundación Santander, Madrid, Spain.
Mimesis; Narrative; Against hegemony! 10 years of Peer Sessions (exhibition co-curator); APT Gallery, London.

2018
Performance for We Are Publication; Unit Twenty-One, Focal Point, Southend-on-Sea.
Public artwork Rope Walk, Ipswich Biennale, Ipswich.
In the Future,
Collyer Bristow Gallery, London.
Flow and Flux Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Arts, London.

2017 Future Refrains (Exhibition co-curator) ASC Gallery London.

2015 Reboot Online Channel; The Modern Languages Experiment at Sluice Art Fair, London.

2014
Who Thinks the Future? Lewisham Arthouse, London.
We Are Fucking Angry - performance with Tom Trevatt and David Mabb 26th Sept; Who Thinks the Future?

2013
Paradise Lodge @ Studio X, Studio X, Mumbai, India.
Post Post, Goldsmiths, London.
Art Moments Festival, Artplay, Moscow, Russia.
New Work, Bond House Gallery, London.

2012 Overview 2011, Frans Masareel Centrum, Belgium.

2011
Translate/Transcribe, Art Moscow, Russia.
All that glitters, Renewal Award, Deptford X, London.
Creekside Open, selected by Dexter Dalwood, APT Gallery, London.
Studio Artists Gallery Show, Woodmill, London.

2010
Legacy I, Formans Smokehouse Gallery, London.
PERM WORKS, permanent intervention, 2 Jonnys’ project space, London.
The Dictionary of Received Ideas, curated Bridget Donlon, Q Art, London.
Kent Cultural Baton at the 2010 Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, UK.
Heart of Glass, 20 Hoxton Square Projects, London.
The Devil’s Necktie, Woodmill, London.
Incidents, Goth on Bus, London.

2009 The Object of the Attack, David Roberts Art Foundation, London.

2008
The Mirth of Manfred Blob, Utrophia Project Space, London.
LOOP film festival, Barcelona, Spain.

Education

2026 PhD, Kingston School of Art, London (AHRC award: Techne award)
2012 PGCE(LLS), School of Education; University of Greenwich
2009 MFA Art Practice, Goldsmiths College, University of London (AHRC award: Professional Preparation Masters Scheme)
2002 BA (hon.) Fine Art (1st Class), University of Leeds, Leeds

Awards

2017-26 AHRC (Techne DTP) full funding for doctoral research at Kingston University
2017 Grants for the Arts funding, Arts Council England (for Peer Sessions)
2014 Grants for the Arts funding, Arts Council England (for Peer Sessions)
2011 Deptford X; Renewal Award, London
2008 AHRC full funding for MFA at Goldsmiths: Professional Preparation Masters Scheme

Residencies

2018 The Object of Research, RCA/University of Cumbria, Carlisle
2015 LIMITACTION, Cass Window Space Gallery, London Metropolitan University, London
2014 Peer Sessions: TRIALOGUES residency at ASC Gallery Bankside, London
2013 Paradise Lodge Residency, Lonavala, India
2012 Escape the Contemporary, Treignac Projects, Treignac, France
2011 Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium
2009 Academic exchange: Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL
2005 Peggy Guggenheim Museum Venice, Internship, Venice, Italy

Collections

Frans Masereel Centrum Collection, Belgium
Colecção Teixeira de Freitas, Lisbon, Portugal
Private collection, Norway
Private collections, UK

 


Teaching

Current Norwich University of the Arts'; BA Fine Art Associate Lecturer
2025 OCA; Creative Arts Guest Lecturer
2023 Bath Spa; BA Fine Art Visiting Lecturer
2022 Goldsmiths MA Culture Industry Visiting Lecturer
2022 Kingston University/SPG; BA Fine Art Guest Lecturer/Workshop leader
2016 University of the Arts London; MA Fine Art Visiting Lecturer
2016 Southampton Solent University; BA Fine Art Visiting Lecturer
2012-16 Mary Ward Centre, London; Course Leader; Foundation in Art & Design
2013 MS University of Baroda, India; BFA Visiting Lecturer
2012 British Higher School of Art & Design, Moscow, Russia; Course Leader; Foundation in Art & Design.

Writing and Publiations

2024 Journal Article, Studies in the Maternal Journal (Peer reviewed)
2024 Creating Visibility: Bridging the Gap Between Policymakers and Creative Freelancers essay Commissioned by DACS

2023 Consultant editor for Structurally F~cked; written by Indistria, published by a-n (ISBN 978-1-907529-34-4)

2022 Why we need a Contemporary New Deal in the Arts; essay commissioned by Art Review.
2022 Featured in Ever Emerging online magazine.
2022 SLOW essay commissioned by Sophie Risner.

2021 Artists as Workers research report published by Autonomy Institute.
2021 The Furture of Work; Research commissioned by Artquest.
2021 Interviewed by Miriam La Rosa in Curating the Contemporary.

2020 Featured in 25; APT 25th Anniversary Catalogue (ISBN 978-1-9161570-2-6)

2019 Featured in There’ll Never be a Door. You’re Inside; Pieces from the Coleção Teixeira de Freitas Catalogue; Fundación Santander, Madrid, Spain.

2015 Featured in Speculative Labour: on the Work of Charlotte Warne Thomas by Emily Rosamond In Transition: The Artistic and Curatorial Residency, Whitechapel/CtC Press 2015 (ISBN 9780993358708)

2011 Featured in Yearbook 2011, Frans Masereel Centrum Collection, Belgium
2011 Featured on The Culture Show episode 4/31 Produced by Pauline Law for BBC2; Broadcast: 7pm 2nd Jun 2011


Talks, Lectures & Events

2025 Panel - A Discussion on Artist Labour and Pay with Débora Delmar, Charlotte Warne Thomas & Bori Borbála Soós, Stanley Picker Gallery, London
2025
Advocacy - Launch of report Framing the Future: The Political Case for Strengthening the Visual Arts Ecosystem, April 2025. House of Parliament

2024 Presentation - presented my research on artists’ pay and conditions to the APPG Visual Arts, Houses of Parliament.
2024 Podcast - Labour, Care and Solidarity - Multiple Os podcast interview by Oriana Fox
2024
Panel - What do makers need from the new UK government? for Crafts Council
2024 Lecture - Utopias Vs Realities; The Paradoxes of Success in the Contemporary Art World: Hartslane HA! alternative MA, London
2024 Panel - Artists Rights: Sustaining Artists Now and in the Future; roundtable for DACS, Shoreditch Arts Club, London

2023 Paper presentation - Visceral Bodies Symposium, Kingston University, London
2024 Presentation - presented my research on precarious pay in the cultural sector to the APPG Writers’ Group, Houses of Parliament.

2022 Lecture - Distinction and care: Inequalities in the Arts; MA Culture Industry, Goldsmiths, University of London
2022 Paper and workshop presentation - Ways of Caring; Practicing Solidarity conference; ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem, Netherlands (Peer Reviewed).

2021 Talk - Artists as Workers; AUE congress.

2020 Paper presentation - 12th Critical Finance Studies conference; Goldsmiths, University of London. (Peer Reviewd)

2018 Panel - Building Artistic Communities, Goldsmiths, University of London.

2017 Symposium - Collaboration in Question, a symposium on artist collaboration in contemporary art; with Lindsay Seers; Adam Chodzko; Emily Rosamond; ASC Gallery (Event organiser)

2016 Curator - Mr and Mrs Andrews, exhibition by Ian Gonczarow, Bond House, London
2016 Talk (Peer Sessions) - Channel Sundays, Hamburg, Germany
2016 Lecture (Peer Sessions) - Portsmouth University

2015 Participant - The Art and Labour Game Show Live hosted by The Modern Languages Experiment; Sluice Art Fair, London
2015 Panel - In Transition: The Artistic and Curatorial Residency, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2015 Artist Talk - London Met University