MARLEYxSH SydneySELECTED WORKS
MARLEY is a creative technologist and illustrator based between Sydney and Berlin, with an interdisciplinary practice that spans painting, illustration, textile design, videography, publication design and blockchain experimentation. 

Trained in oil painting at the National Art School Sydney, then studying publication and print media at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Melbourne), her work spans traditional media and experimentation with digital technologies. She co-founded Toy Frens, a blockchain-native NFT community on Ethereum, exploring the intersection of digital and physical realms through photography. Her work engages with the archive as a living, participatory experience, questioning how information is shared and reimagined. As a digital nomad, Marley shapes creative dialogues between technology, memory, and collective agency.
  Toy Frens NFT [Metaverse]
6thouse Tattoo [Global]
Softwear [Fashion]
An offering of ones body as extraneous clothing [Melbourne]
Beheading of a Tall Poppy [Berlin, Residency]
Liminal Conversations, Gertrude Street Projection Festival [Melbourne]



how to behead a tall poppy
[ARTBiesenthal]


#residency #sculpture #berlin

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how to behead a tall poppy (2019)

Presented at ART Biesenthal, Berlin. 

Cotton jacquard weave


How to behead a tall poppy (2019) depicts an imaginative vision of the destruction of ‘tall poppy syndrome’ and questions such systems that allow for its metastasis. Colloquially, ‘tall poppy syndrome’ is often used in Australia and refers to the idea of cutting a tall poppy to size, that is undermining the success of the other in favour of remaining the same. Suspended, the two panels (2030 x 1520) hang in conversation with the viewer, who was invited to fall into the altered realm of collaged image and the violent backside of inverted red chromatic thread. The tapestry reads: red-bottom stilettos worn by morphed bodies that mingle in the wild flower hordes; brought down to earth on the same geo-level as the soil from each poppy that grows. Monumental buildings, architectures reveal themselves in outer-rings of the cyclical composition suggesting the influences of established systems in the collective syndrome.