Meet the Creative Future team

We are a small, dedicated team who bring a wealth of experience across artforms, as creatives ourselves and in curating, commissioning, producing, management, and strategic policy. We are experts in working with a wide range of underrepresented artists and writers, drawing on our own relevant lived experiences. Our core team is small, but we work with a national cohort of freelance artists, writers, mentors, and trainers.

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Rose Kigwana (she/her)
Chief Executive Officer

Rose has a wealth of experience in placemaking, creative programming, fundraising, and producing. In recent years she has been focusing on making the cultural sector more inclusive and representative through supporting under-represented artists and communities to thrive and influencing and implementing change. Rose is a member of the Brighton & Hove Anti-Racism Creative Coalition.

With a degree in craft design and an early career as an environmentally aware designer-maker, Rose continues to find ways to apply her creative passion and skills. Her latest rather ambitious, creative project was the interior design and improving the accessibility of The Dance Space, Brighton.

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Matt Freidson (he/him)
Deputy Director

Matt has worked to support underrepresented people for twenty years, working with refugees and asylum seekers, on housing estates and in community development, as well as supporting over 100 community organisations. He has published over twenty short stories in literary journals and anthologies, and his book is available here.

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Scarlett Langdon (she/her)
Communications Manager

Scarlett has a background in communications, digital marketing, community engagement and events production. She has worked in the charity sector for many years, having worked previously for Brighton and Hove LGBTQ Switchboard, Prisoners’ Education Trust, Quakers in Britain and Arts Students’ Union. Scarlett is passionate about making the arts more accessible to people from underrepresented backgrounds and creating an arts industry which is more diverse and representative of the world we live in.

Louise Evans

Louise Evans (she/her)
Administrator

While studying for a BA in Printmaking Louise developed an interest in participatory art practices. Louise has previously facilitated art-based workshops with Brighton Aldrich Community Academy, Artyfacts Art Academy.

Louise achieved a Merit in her MA in Inclusive Arts Practice, for her work with the Rocket Artists to conducted arts-based research surrounding facilitation and running inclusive workshops.

Our Founders

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Dominique De-Light

After running Creative Future for 11 years, and establishing the Creative Future Writers’ Awards,  Dominique is now a creativity and wellbeing coach at www.wellbalancedcoaching.co.uk, an arts and health consultant, and founder and director of another charity, Well Balanced Kids, providing yoga and mindfulness sessions to children and young people across Sussex.

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Simon Powell

Simon co-directed Creative Future from 2007 – 2015, focusing on the visual arts side of things, including Tight Modern and The Impact Art Fair. In 2017 he established a programme of arts at St. Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney, London, serving patients, nurses and the local community. More recently he has been busy with personal projects - filmmaking, game design and writing.

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