PARTICIPATE:
Manifestos of Care and Repair: Art Working Parents Alliance
Jo Harrison of AWP and guest speaker Charlotte Warne Thomas, will host a workshop examining the use of the 'manifesto’ within art practices. The session will involve an open discussion around the value and purpose of manifestos as well as working collaboratively to create a new manifesto centring themes of care, parenting and the arts.
This is a relaxed event and children are welcome.
Saturday 27 September 2–3.30pm
San Mei Gallery, 39a Loughborough Road, SW9 7TB










Jo Harrison [she/her] is a curator and arts worker whose practice focuses on gender, work and economies of care. She is Director at The Approach and runs ‘Repronomics’, a research project exploring social reproduction and cultural production as invisible and exploitable ‘labours of love’. Jo was curator at Almanac Projects; has been a visiting lecturer at Birth Rites Collection, Central Saint Martins and Slade School of Art (UCL). She co-founded The Arts Working Parents Alliance. You can register to become a member for free here.
Charlotte Warne Thomas [she/her] is an artist, lecturer, parent and advocate for artists’ fair pay and conditions. She teaches Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts. She graduated from Goldsmiths MFA in 2009, and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work has been selected for the RBSA Photography Prize 2025 exhibition, Exeter Contemporary Open and This is Essential Work. She has written for Art Review, DACS, and Artquest, and was consultant editor of the 'Structurally F*cked' report into artists' poor pay and conditions.
© Photo: K Elliott
PARTICIPATE:
Manifestos of Care and Repair: Art Working Parents Alliance
Artist Working Parent Group will host a workshop examining the use of the 'manifesto’ within art practices. The session will involve an open discussion around the value and purpose of manifestos as well as working collaboratively to create a new manifesto centring themes of care, parenting and the arts.
This is a relaxed event and children are welcome.
Saturday 27 September 2–3.30pm
San Mei Gallery, 39a Loughborough Road, SW9 7TB




Jo Harrison [she/her] is a curator and arts worker whose practice focuses on gender, work and economies of care. She is Director at The Approach and runs ‘Repronomics’, a research project exploring social reproduction and cultural production as invisible and exploitable ‘labours of love’. Jo was curator at Almanac Projects; has been a visiting lecturer at Birth Rites Collection, Central Saint Martins and Slade School of Art (UCL). She co-founded The Arts Working Parents Alliance. You can register to become a member for free here.




Charlotte Warne-Thomas [she/her] is an artist, lecturer, parent and advocate for artists’ fair pay and conditions. She teaches Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts. She graduated from Goldsmiths MFA in 2009, and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work has been selected for the RBSA Photography Prize 2025 exhibition, Exeter Contemporary Open and This is Essential Work. She has written for Art Review, DACS, and Artquest, and was consultant editor of the 'Structurally F*cked' report into artists' poor pay and conditions.
© Photo: K Elliott



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