Marley Starskey Butler - Resourcing Listening

What this episode covers

<p>Marley Starskey Butler works as a multidisciplinary artist and social worker. They have revealed that art has functioned as a therapeutic tool for them, helping them to process their own complex childhood, as well as their years in social work - and in 2023 they launched their first solo photographic exhibition, “Thirty-Six”.</p> <p><br></p> <p>They work across visual, audio, and written media and explore the intersections between art, social work as employment, and their familial lived experience of social work. </p> <p><br></p> <p>In this episode, Marley talks about workshops as spaces for listening. They describe a project where redacted social work records act as an impetus for recording a new family archive. </p> <p><br></p> <p>They also discuss listening within the context of social work, and how the chronic under-resourcing of the sector affects this.</p>