Beth Lukockyj

Beth Lukockyj is a multimedia artist working primarily with textiles. Her practice draws from traditional craft techniques, including weaving and stitching, to explore how emotion and memory are embedded in material. There's a sensitivity to layering, repetition, and surface - where meaning is built up through time, texture and quiet intervention.

Selected Works

Woven Words Collection, 2026
print on fabric
Exhibited in Our Very Fabric

The works presented are a series of handwoven textiles that explore emotion and memory through the use of text. While the starting point often comes from my own writing at the time the pieces are intentionally open ended, inviting viewers to form their own interpretations and connections.

The larger piece functions as a kind of storyboard of ideas or textile drawing, bringing together text, colour imagery, and texture. It features an overshot inlay throughout, created using a name-drafting technique in which a chosen word or phrase is translated into a decorative pattern acting almost like a hidden message. These textures acting as subtle, embedded messages create a different visual outcome that isn’t always known or obvious to the viewer and explores a different way to how language can be used.

Smaller hints of colour appear throughout the work, referencing my dad’s photographs from specific times and places that hold personal significance and memory, moving towards a quiet sense of collaboration and continuation