Louise Clark
Staff Profile
Name
Louise Clark
Bio - Description
Lou Clark is Clinks’ NCJAA Project Manager and since September 2024 has been managing the network of arts organisations and arts practitioners working in criminal justice. Lou previously worked with Clinks as a Development Worker and with Nacro as a voluntary sector coordinator in a women’s prison. She has a degree in Interactive Arts, runs art sessions in her local heritage centre and volunteers with two local arts festivals.
She wrote and delivered the Clinks Working in Prisons training and led on the Good Prison project to enhance the understanding and importance of the voluntary sector working in prisons. She also specialised in women offenders, having managed one of the early women’s centres to divert women from custody and developed the national Sex Workers in Prison project following her Griffins Society research.
After a career break and some world travel, she trained as a horticultural therapist and wellness in nature craft practitioner and in recent years supported neuro diverse adults in community gardens and city farms. She recently escaped city living for the Forest of Dean and as well as returning to working in criminal justice part-time, continues to enjoy art and nature in her spare time.
She wrote and delivered the Clinks Working in Prisons training and led on the Good Prison project to enhance the understanding and importance of the voluntary sector working in prisons. She also specialised in women offenders, having managed one of the early women’s centres to divert women from custody and developed the national Sex Workers in Prison project following her Griffins Society research.
After a career break and some world travel, she trained as a horticultural therapist and wellness in nature craft practitioner and in recent years supported neuro diverse adults in community gardens and city farms. She recently escaped city living for the Forest of Dean and as well as returning to working in criminal justice part-time, continues to enjoy art and nature in her spare time.