On Felicity Powell: In-Conversation with Marina Warner & Sarah Turner

Marina Warner is a writer of cultural history, fiction and criticism. Her award-winning books explore myths, symbols and fairy tales. She has curated exhibitions, including The Shelter of Stories at Compton Verney (2025-2026), a show that explores the ideas in Sanctuary: Ways of Telling, Ways of Dwelling (2025). Her essays on literature and art are collected in Signs & Wonders (1994), Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art and Artists (2018), and Myth, Magic and Marvels(forthcoming). She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, a Distinguished Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Fellow of the RA.

 

Sarah Turner is Director of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London, a research institute and educational charity part of Yale University. Sarah has overseen many innovative programmes and collaborative projects with partners in the UK and internationally, including curating Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia & Friends at Kettle’s Yard, co-hosting the Sculpting Lives podcast with Jo Baring, which focused on British women sculptors, and co-founding the award-winning, open-access journal British Art Studies in collaboration with colleagues at the Yale Center for British Art. As an art historian, much of her writing has focused on the entangled relationships between Britain, the British Empire and South Asia. Further information on Sarah’s research and publications can be found here: https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/about/sarah-victoria-turner.