Charmagne Coble

Charmagne Coble is a neurodivergent, British fine artist living and working in Manchester, UK, who’s practice explores the complex relationship between absence and presence and how difficult it is to separate the two.

After watching her mother recover from a rare brain tumour at 15 and being witness to her father’s death at 18 years old, Charmagne began creating art as a way to express her emotions. Through a multidisciplinary practice focused on loss, trauma and mental health, The artist confronts the intense journey of grief specialising in mediums of photography, printmaking and painting.

Entwining poetry, philosophy and literature into her practice, the artist questions the idea of traces left absent from the human body and analyses the pain and loss that is present.

Coble visually expresses her personal journey of mental health through fine art, creating a harmonious balance of grief and peace in the work, believing: “what can be too painful to talk about, the artwork will speak for me”.

Charmagne was rejected entry into A-level art because her teacher said she would struggle to keep up and fine art “wasn’t really her thing”. Learning to turn pain into power, Charmagne left A levels, went to college instead and became th...

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 (as part...