She studied Visual Communation at Hochshule der Künste Berlin (1988-93) thank to an Onassis Benefit Foundation scholarship. The design of a Peloponnesian kilim and its history of travel from the East to the West fueled her desire to study fibers. A Fulbright Foundation Artist grant (2008) facilitated a research at The Textile Museum’s collection in Washington D.C. She works with textile, jewellery and performance. She was nominated for the European Triennale Applied Arts Prize/Jewellery (Mons, Belgium 2018 and Kilkenny, Ireland 2019); the Herbert Hofmann Prize in Munich 2017 (Jewellery) and Altonale Art Festival Prize (Performance, Hamburg 2014). She is currently co-curating Wert/voll, an international jewellery art show at Grassi Museum Leipzig funded by the German Federal Environment Agency. She has lectured on jewellery, textile, communication at Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (2017), Zimmerhof Symposium (2014), Stilwerk Hamburg (2014), Creative Economy Agency Hamburg and Flensburg (2012), the Embassy of Greece in Washington D.C. (2008) etc. She is the co-founder of FaveLAB, an indy cultural platform (Athens, 2017). She received the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Stiftung art grant in 2011 and 2012. In 2008, Loukia Richards received a Fulbright Artist grant that allowed her to carry out research at The Textile Museum’s collection in Washington D.C.