Eastside Projects is an artist-run multiverse, commissioning, producing and presenting experimental
Alongside imagining, testing and modelling a free public gallery, we are engaged in an expanded range of public activities – we make art, curate exhibitions, programme events, devise public art strategies, serve as commissioning agents, create production facilities, produce public art projects, generate and apply research, develop talent, train future art leaders and create structures to support a
🌟Save the date Fri 1st May 2026. 6-8pm 🌟 for the Launch of Seema Mattu: Local Superstar co-commissioned by Eastside Projects &
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Join us for the launch of Marley Starskey Butler’s Compensare: For the Swallows We Weigh, Friday 23 January, 6–8pm Everyone is welcome!
Our latest Incidental Artist project has been developed during a ten-month placement at Beacon Family Services, an organisation in Birmingham providing therapeutic and relational play services for parents, carers, and families.
Set against a backdrop where political priorities and funding decisions continually shape access to therapeutic services, the exhibition illuminates how these systemic forces intersect with the lived realities of families and the professionals who support them.
Marley Starskey Butler is a Birmingham based interdisciplinary artist and qualified social worker. Their practice interweaves storytelling, memory, and emotional landscapes to explore how people make meaning of personal and collective narratives within systems of care. Marley was Wheatley Fellow with us and 2024-2025.
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08/01/2026
The snow’s a coming! Digbeth is going to look beautiful tomorrow. Helen Cammock’s new public artworks are settling in nicely. Still more to come. Keep safe all x
07/01/2026
EP Recommends: get yourself to to see the magnificent show: Mmm Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could Be Sweet. I’ve been singing that gorgeous song every time I come across the title, the poster, the book, the awesome bits that were photographed here at Eastside (first pic) during our wonderful (if I do say so myself) show back in 2020. I loved being the ‘exploded body’ of Harold, soaking in all the sounds and surfaces and brainwaves with such a softness and generosity. It’s on till 1 March, so no excuse! X
07/01/2026
👀 an ambiguous peak behind the scenes at Eastside Projects! We are at the coal face of our next two shows…
🚢LAUNCHING: Friday 23 Jan 6–8PM 🌊
Marley Starskey Butler: Compensare: For The Swallows We Weigh
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Sarah Al Sarraj: NAR MARRATU
💌Everyone is invited to join us on the launch night of two new exhibitions. Expect video, music, movement, drawing and world building. C’mon in! 📬
06/01/2026
COMING SOON: Marley Starskey Butler
Compensare: For The Swallows We Weigh
24 January to 4 April 2026
Launching Friday 23 January, 6–8pm
Everyone is welcome ❄️
‘The swallows know there is hope,
There is always hope.’
More info on our website, link in bio.
31/12/2025
See you all in 2026. Touching allowed! Big love from the EP gang x
20/12/2025
The life and times of an Artist-Curator Trainee at Eastside Projects! We have had an amazing 18 months with powering the EP team to great heights, ascending with his curated show The Hole in the Whole into fully fledged Artist-Curator status. If you’re looking for a young artist, curator, artist-curator with a strong moral compass, sharp insights, carefully developed ideas and an eye for detail, you could go no better. Thanks for all your hard work and dedication Harman, you’re going on to do even greater things. We love you loads. Here’s to an upturn of support and possibilities in the artworld landscape for 2026 💥
16/12/2025
Had an amazing walk from Birmingham New St out to Spaghetti Junction and Star City yesterday along the canals with spying inventive making processes along the way and the spread of car industry across North Birmingham’s landscapes. I was flagging with flu and saved half way by Harriet’s flask of oaty tea, was so delicious! Looking forward to the Incidental Artist ripples of these doings, noises and masala bean cheese toasties at star city! It’s a wondrous walk. Recommend it. Intriguing new Bill Drummond painting under the junction he hasn’t told me about either!
16/12/2025
“A curse upon me, you, them – the men, with their always-crumbling Empires and their always-limiting categories of identity.”
Check out ’s new essay published on , “Hellishes on Earth,” a play on words tracing (seeking?) an incongruous poetics amongst the inhabitants of hell and the damned on the Earth.
The essay is accompanied by drawings and notes that were shown and performed as part of the group show ‘The Hole in the Whole’ curated by
Link in bio to read the whole essay! 🪶🧿
12/12/2025
Behind the scenes of deinstalling ’s incredible show!👷🔨
We’re sad to see it go but also excited for what’s next. Keep an eye out 👀
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