CV                        
Education
Bio

June 2021 - Present | Arts Emergency | Communications Officer | London


January 2020 - Present | The Mushroom | Commisioning Editor | London

February 2019 - Present | Freelance Arts Writer | London

March 2019 - December 2020 | The Koppel Project and TKP Campus | Programme & Communications Manager | London

February 2019 | Elephant Magazine | Editorial Intern | London

August 2018 | Edinburgh Art Festival | Volunteer Gallery Attendant | Edinburgh

September 2017 – June 2018 | History of Art at St Andrews | Staff Writer | St Andrews, Fife

September 2016 – May 2017 | Charles Zerner, Barbara B. and Bertram J. Cohn Professor of Environmental Studies | Research Assistant | Sarah Lawrence College, NY

January 2016 – September 2016 | The Estate of Eugene Prakapas | Archivist | Bronxville, NY

June 2016 – August 2016 | Towner Gallery | Volunteer Gallery Attendant | Eastbourne, East Sussex

January – August 2015 | Berlin Walls – Affordable Art Events | Gallery Assistant | Henley, Oxfordshire

January 2012 – September 2016 | Pure Health Ltd. | Assistant to Director | Newhaven, East Sussex

September 2017 – December 2018 | University of St Andrews, Fife | Master of Letters with Distinction in Intellectual History

September 2013 – May 2017 | Sarah Lawrence College, NY | Bachelor of Liberal Arts (Concentration: Art History & Environmental Science) | GPA: 3.99


Publications & Affiliations


MLitt Dissertation: A Tale of Two Paradigms: The Role of Apocalyptic Anxiety in the Designation of ‘Golden Ages’ in the Historical Record (Submitted 2018)



Sukayna Powell is a writer, editor, ideas-wrangler-for-hire, and mushroom evangelist currently based in East London. She writes about art, death, fungi, the environment, visual culture, and the apocalypse, and in her ‘spare time’ works on arts education for all, communications consultation for artists, makers, and charities, and tries to remember to eat.