Proper nowadays artists - day 200: Aidan Harte (Ireland)

Aidan Harte (1979, Ireland)

A sculptor (mainly) who was most recently found making the news in a Father Ted style outrage over his “grotesque and scary” 'Púca of Ennistymon' sculpture. Controversy aside, in terms of understanding of form, level of skill and actual aesthetics it’s a million miles above most of the nonsense that usually clutters up public areas in the country. Harte does loads of other stuff but that’s the thing that’s making waves right now.