Charmagne Coble

Charmagne Coble is a neurodivergent, British fine artist based in Manchester, UK

Through a multidisciplinary practice, her work explores absence & presence through memory and traces left behind.

As well as photography, printmaking, and painting, Coble uses her own body as both medium and subject. Creating fragile imprints through powders and chemicals applied to the skin, these transfers imprint memories of haunting, decay and transformation.

Coble’s practice is formed from personal experiences of grief, loss and survival. After watching her mother’s recovery from a rare brain tumour at 15, and witness to the death of her father at 18, she visualised what couldn’t be verbalised.

The body of work symbolises both an archive and an exorcism, examining the aftermath of mental health, trauma, and absence. Infused with poetry, literature, and philosophy, Coble’s art interrogates the grief we carry, the trauma we inherit, the memories we hold, and the healing we yearn for.

Rejected from A-level Art and told that it “wasn’t really her thing,” Coble redirected her path, becoming the first in her family to attend university. She now holds a Master’s degree in Fine Art, continuing to develop a practice focused on making visible what ...

BA in Fine Art, Oxford Brookes University, 2016

MFA in Fine Art, Oxford Brookes University, 2019

Highlighted exhibitions, a more in depth list can be provided

2024 Charmagne Coble - Solo Exhibition, 200 degrees, Manchester, UK

2024 Break the Silence to end the violence, The Starving Artist & Young European Movement London, UK

2023 Humanity: The Outside In National Exhibition, Sotheby’s, London, UK

2023 The Margate Art Prize - shortlisted by Tracey Emin, Ramsay & Williams, Margate, UK

2023 Humanity: The Outside In National Exhibition, Sotheby’s, London, UK

2023 On Food, Conviviality and Cultures Exhibition, Loosen Art, Rome, Italy

2023 The Emergence Project, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography CIC, Glasgow, UK

2023 Format Photo Festival - Gas Lighting, Miranda Gavin and Victoria Forrest, Derby, UK

2022 I Used to Think…But Then I Thought , Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool UK

2022 Trauma and Healing, Espacio Gallery , London, UK

021 Art from the heart charity exhibition in aide of Maggie's Oxford, Zuleika Gallery, virtual Exhibition

2021 Oxford Open Exhibition, Jam Factory, Oxford, UK (Work nominated by judges)

2021 Creative Reactions, collaboration with Nottingham University for A Pint of Science, Virtual Exhibition

2021 Text Me When You Get Home, The Impulse Movement, Virtual Exhibition

2020 Responsive Space ...