Liene Mackus

Liene Mackus (1984) is a sculptor and animation artist who usually works with plasticine animation she herself calls the moving sculpture. Her début in children’s book art – illustrations for a children’s poem in the Bicki-buck books series (Liels un Mazs). The artist often pays attention to the social theme, but analyses it from a distance and with lots of unconditional love. She is also the nominee for the Purvītis Prize and author of an extraordinary environmental art object in Riga – a bench called Riga’s Lion (2015).

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