Marley Starskey Butler
Artist / Researcher / Social Worker

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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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Anchors
Hospital  Rooms X Sandwell  Camhs





Commissioned by Hospital Rooms in collaboration with Sandwell CAMHS
May 2023 – July 2024

Anchors was developed through a commission by Hospital Rooms, an arts and mental health charity that reimagines clinical environments through artist-led collaboration with patients and staff.

The project took place at Sandwell CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service), a specialist service supporting young people aged 5–18 experiencing severe and complex mental health challenges across the Sandwell borough in the Black Country. Over the course of the project, Marley delivered a series of five workshops with young people, using storytelling as a central method to build trust, explore shared experiences, and shape the direction of the commission. These sessions informed the development of the final artwork.


The outcome was a reimagining of the “Crisis Room,” a space used by the crisis intervention team. Through the project, the room was transformed and renamed the Anchor Room, reflecting a shift toward a more supportive, grounding, and welcoming environment. Developed through ongoing collaboration with young people, Anchors incorporates hand-painted details and a playful reinterpretation of domestic furnishings. The work draws on Marley’s background in social work, embedding care, empathy, and lived experience into the design.

Publication: HERE

Images by Patrick Dandy