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 is often painful to articulate.