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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Oh, So Now You Love Us?
Eagleworks

Oh, Now You Love Us? Is the presentation of selected excerpts from in-progress works by interdisciplinary artist Marley Starskey Butler.

Created over a sixteen-day period during a research and development residency with Eagle Works between August and November 2024 this work explores the tensions and contradictions between creative play, hostile architecture in civic spaces, and the extraction and use of cultural capital developed on the street as an unformatted stage - a playground for practitioners of architectural play who use mediums such as BMX bikes. Oh, now you love us?

A filmed performance featuring the deconstruction of a BMX bike, accompanied by a sound composition created from source material recorded from the spokes of the dismantled wheel is also situated in the Project Space, removed from its original context. Elsewhere in the space photographs depict two opposing environments: one remains a street spot, open to engagement by practitioners of architectural play, while the other shows a metal sphere, a human intervention designed to prevent play through its addition. Do they love us, now?

Eagleworks