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

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

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Selected Ambient Portraits 2018 - 25

The Archives 2004 - 20 (Coming Soon)

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Wake up in the morning,  4 o’clock. I don’t know what I’m doing by pursuing what I’m not.  I think I’ll be wasted in this plot.  This story is forming knots around my neck. I second guess what paragraph I’m on, lacking respect for myself.  The quiet me is filling with anxiety,  so my health’s denying me  the energy to crop this pain out the picture. So I’m not sane, I'm just praying that I’m lost.  what I’m paying is the cost  of ignoring the voices  that are saying that  our calling is from our self worth.  A warning in the dirt will ensue. I wish I knew this is from the start but. nah  the process is the star, we only comprehend after . The feeling of crying with laughter. Laughter with crying   all releasing the same tears. The rain clears  and now it's 7.30 in the morning.  I don't know is what is next   All I know is that i'm stalling.

Directed and Photographed by Keanu Keen. Written and Performed by Marley Starskey Butler / Thank you to Keanu Keen, Sharonjit Kaur Sutton and Kavita Purohit.