Halyna Kusko was born in Lviv in 1959. She graduated from the Textile Department of the State College of Decorative and Applied Arts in Lviv – diploma with honours. She is university reader in the history of art. Halyna Kusko is the dean of the Faculty of Decorative and Applied Arts of the Lviv National Academy of Arts. She works in textile art and the history of art.

Motto:
The prototype of my work was an imprint of a broken doll that I saw in the middle of the street at the beginning of the war. This event heightened the anxiety. But the real test was ahead of us. And the worst of all – suffering and death of children. The composition “Destroyed Doll” is the embodiment of the image of terrible disharmony, destruction, death, chaos that have been brought to our country by the Russian military aggression.