Meet the team
Erika Flowers
Advisory Group member
Erika Flowers is a London Based freelance artist who works across many media including Illustration, Painting, Murals, Animation and Ceramics.
Erika’s story includes lived experience of the challenges that she experienced in accessing creative facilities whilst in the prison system, and then in seeking employment in the creative sector.
Working across many media, Erika has been working in the Criminal Justice Sector seeking ways to visually communicate the issues and the struggles of prisoners and share them to with a wider public audience. She has found herself campaigning for better pathways for people with convictions in the creative sector and embracing the talent of people that face these barriers.
Erika, amongst other work, delivers work in the Criminal Justice Sector; Art based workshops, and Mural painting with INYBB, and has been involved in the campaign to ensure that there is a proper legacy building for women following the closure of HMP Holloway, London’s only female prison. Erika has been involved with the NCJAA since 2018, joining the advisory board at it’s inception in 2021.
Erika’s Women’s Building Board Game was accepted into the Magistrates 100 year Anniversary Archive and her work has won many Koestler Arts Awards including multiple platinum and gold awards in various categories.
Erika’s work can be found at www.recordedinart.com
Header image courtesy of Prisoners’ Education Trust (c) Rebecca Radmore