Charmagne is a fine artist who explores the relationship between absence and presence and how difficult it is to separate the two.
After being a witness to her fathers death at 18 years old and being diagnosed with an eating disorder Charmagne began to use art as a way to express herself, creating a practice focused on loss, trauma and mental health.
By applying chemical experimentation and philosophical research the artist analyses and questions the idea of traces left absent from the human body, creating works formed from decay and grief. Through a process of photography and printmaking Charmagne confronts what life is like after trauma, by entwining domestic and found objects to her practice to create haunting yet beautiful works of decay, grief and loss.
The artist wasn’t allowed to study art at A-level because her teacher said she would struggle to keep up and fine art “wasn’t really her thing”. Charmagne now has a Masters Degree in Fine Art. www.charmagnecoble.com
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