Marley Starskey Butler
Artist / Researcher / Social Worker

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Selected Works

2026
Compensare: For the Swallows We Weigh, Eastside Projects
Yuh Nuh, Vivid Projects  and Birmingham Museum and Gallery

2025
Augenblick

2024 
Thirty-Six, Midlands Arts Centre
Anchors, Hospital Rooms
Oh, So Now You Love Us? Eagleworks
Else, Multistory
Us Done Well EP X Warner and Butler

2023
4am

2021
Lemon Tree 
Thank You Music

2020
Black For Ages 
Tower In Memories

In Progress
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Zwischen
Selected Ambient Portraits 2018 - 25

The Archives 2004 - 20 (Coming Soon)

PhD

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Photo by Marta Marsicka 

Born in 1987 in Leeds, England. 
Raised by Wolverhampton, nurtured by Derby, currently residing and working in Birmingham, England.

Marley Starskey Butler is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher and social worker currently undertaking a PhD in Art and Design at Birmingham School of Art. Their practice interweaves storytelling, memory, and emotional landscapes to explore how people make meaning of personal and collective narratives within systems of care.

Grounded in lived professional and familial experience across child protection, fostering, adoption, and mental health, these experiences inform both the content and methodology of their practice, positioning their work at an intersection of art and social care.

Current Commision: Ode to the Midlands: Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN) X Arts Collective

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