Peer Sessions can be booked for the following services:
Peer sessions crit – from £300 for a two hour session. Charlotte and Kate facilitate a two hour crit providing guided in-depth discussion on participants’ work. Suitable for student groups (universities, colleges, and self-led), galleries (contact us to discuss how we can fit into your education or public engagement programming), studio groups.
Artist mentoring and/ or studio visit - focussing on work in progress; development of practice; career; practical issues etc. – 50 minute session in multiples of £50 for 1 to 1 mentoring online. Group sessions - please enquire; studio visit/ in person - price dependent on location.
Talks/ lectures - please contact us for options including how and why to set up an artists crit group;
practical training in facilitating a crit group using the Peer Sessions method.
Dr Kate Pickering is a London-based artist, writer, and associate lecturer in Fine Art at Goldsmiths and tutor on the BA (Hons) Creative Arts programme at Open College of the Arts. Pickering researches the entanglements of ritual, ecological bodies and sacred sites through writing, performance, making and drawing. She has been a practicing artist for over 25 years, exhibiting nationally and internationally, and her writing has been published widely. Pickering has taught studio art, art theory and visual cultures across all levels of Higher Education, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In addition to teaching in art departments at Goldsmiths, Norwich University of the Arts, Open College of the Arts and University of the Arts London, Kate has lectured for the Feminist Lecture Programme and delivered a range of experimental writing workshops both in academic and gallery contexts.
Her multi-disciplinary practice in combination with her teaching experience enables her to offer knowledgeable feedback on a wide range of artistic media. Her specialisms include art writing, site-responsive writing, writing for performance; performance; participatory/ socially -engaged practices; and installation. Her research interests include the intersections of art, culture and religion (understood broadly to include folk, pagan and indigenous forms), particularly ritual forms, vocalisation, text and story-telling, also ecologies, sites and environments, new materialisms and the body.
Charlotte Warne Thomas is an artist, writer, lecturer and parent based in Lewisham, SE London. She is currently completing her practice-based PhD in Fine Art at Kingston University, funded by Techne (AHRC).
She has been practicing as an artist for almost 20 years, and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work seeks to investigate and articulate the relationships between labour, work and care, drawing on historical and personal narratives to disrupt and interrogate perceptions of value. She has a particular interest in invisible labour, both women’s (parents’) 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’ (or devotion) in both unpaid domestic care and (women) artists’ work is central. Her work is trans-disciplinary, encompassing a wide range of media including performance, sculpture, textiles, installation, collage, AV and text to question assumptions about hierarchies of value in contemporary society.
Charlotte has a background in teaching art, initially in 6th form, FE and adult/community college, and latterly as a lecturer in Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts. She is passionate about overcoming structural inequalities and barriers to access in the art world, as highlighted by her 2021 report ‘Artists as Workers’. She has subsequently written for ArtReview, DACS, and Artquest; and was the consultant editor for ‘Structurally F~cked’, a pivotal report into artists’ pay and conditions published by a-n. She has presented her research in parliament to the All Party Parliamentary Group Visual Arts, and is a trained mentor and certified Powered by Diversity Ambassador, having supported other artists with PhD / grant applications and studio practice mentoring.
