CREATIVE FUTURES FESTIVAL
ALUMNI PROJECTS 2020
TOM BURFORD MUSICIAN, PRODUCER AND DJ soundcloud.com/contoursmusic
Contours is the project of musician, producer and DJ Tom Burford. Based in Manchester, Contours’ sound explores the spaces, rhythms and textures that sit between House, Jazz, broken-beat, Hip Hop and percussive obscurities. Drum machines, synthesisers, live percussion, samples and field recordings create an infectious blend of the electronic and the organic, the live and the programmed. For this year’s Creative Futures Festival, Tom has produced a video guide to using Cuban rhythms in music production.
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BECCY FROST ETHICAL WRITER & ILLUSTRATOR @rebeccafrostillustration
www.rebeccafrost.net
Beccy is a Fashion Design and Marketing student and part time freelance illustrator. Although she feels her illustration style is still developing, she has always drawn in quite a playful, childlike style influenced by the illustrated books she read when I was little. Beccy’s submission for the Creative Futures Festival combines both her passion for ethical fashion and illustration in a guide to buying ethically.
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ALICE BURFORD ARTIST @aliceburfordartist
Following UCC and a year studying an Art Foundation course at Carlisle College, Alice achieved a first class degree in fine art from Leeds College of Art, specialising in sculpture. She is an arts facilitator for Pyramid, an arts charity that invests in people with learning disabilities, which involved leading groups and devising projects what are accessible. Alice also works for People in Action delivering one to one art outreach services. As an artist, Alice’s current work looks at plants and vessels, as well as landscapes, using collage technique to create layers and textures that are both bright and delicate. For CFF, Alice has produced a guide for how to make Iconic Figurines.
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LAUREN FROST CERAMIC ARTIST @clayandfrost www.laurenfrost.net/ceramics
A love for the natural environment is a strong influence in Lauren’s ceramic practice, throwing delicate vessels on a potter’s wheel; sometimes functional and always decorative. Once fired these vessels become a canvas, capturing a memory of place. Lauren’s latest collection of ceramics were fired in a saggar, buried with natural materials including seaweed collected from Roker Beach. Each piece is unique. The glazed vessels also reflect a natural palette of colour, taking inspiration from her sketchbooks and photographs of horizons in The Lake District and The Hebrides. Lauren has filmed a tutorial of how to create a pinch pot for CFF 2020.
CREATIVE FUTURES FESTIVAL ALUMNI PROJECTS 2020
BRYONY JARMAN-PINTO MUSICIAN @bryonyjarmanpinto www.bryonyjarmanpinto.com
Raised in Cumbria and now based in London, Bryony Jarman-Pinto is an expressive and adventurous singer-songwriter, combining harmonious vocals and mesmerising jazz-fused melodies with personal and complex lyrics. Exploring a crossover of genres as she develops her style as an artist, Bryony Jarman-Pinto finds herself increasingly working with the jazz and world influences of her youth, for a sound that is truly her own. Her debut album ‘Cage & Aviary’ is out now, written over the course of three years, the album ties personal reflection to wider social issues, giving an intimate insight in to what it means to come of age in today’s world. Sophisticated songwriting is brought to life with Bryony’s harmonious vocals, layered with jazz, soul and elements of folk.
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HARRIETTHEATRE MOAR-SMITH ARTIST @derigibleplums
Harriet Moar-Smith left UCC in 2013 to study Theatre Design at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Harriet is currently working in the costume department of the Royal Opera House in London. In her video for the Creative Futures Festival, Harriet shows us how to make a miniture 1-to-25 chair.
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VIV WALKER WOODWORKER, ARTIST AND ARCHAEOLOGIST @vcwoodcraft
vivwalker.com
Viv Walker is an artist, woodcarver and archaeologist – she has recently finished an MSc in Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture. Her work blends these three disciplines to form a practice that consists of historicallyinspired and creatively designed woodworking. She also loves to experiment with other materials, new techniques and archaeological projects. Viv has filmed a how-to guide showing how to make a medieval wooden spoon.
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JOE HARBOT THEATRE AND PLAYWRITING Joe Harbot is a graduate of the Royal Court Writers’ Programme and has had work performed at the Royal Court, Young Vic, Soho Theatre and Southwark Playhouse. He has worked with a number of new writing theatre companies, including Headlong, Paines Plough and Nabokov. His first play, The Boy on the Swing, was staged at Live Theatre Newcastle, directed by Jeremy Herrin, and again at the Arcola in 2011. Potholes was shown at Theatre 503 and was longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2013. Joe has produced ‘We are UCC’ for the festival, it is a piece of video work based on going to school in year nine.
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