Artist NS Harsha's work questions the tradition of Indian culture
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The winner of the UK's biggest visual arts prize - the Artes Mundi - has been was announced.
NS Harsha, from India, beat eight other finalists for the �40,000 prize.
His drawings and paintings use Indian Miniaturist painting to tell stories which question the traditions of Indian culture.
The competition - Latin for "Art of the world" - attracts more than 400 nominations. The National Museum Wales exhibition runs until 8 June.
The prize is funded by a number of Welsh organisations, including the Welsh Assembly Government, the Arts Council of Wales and Cardiff Council.
Previous winners of the award have included Xu Bing, a Chinese artist whose work was made from dust collected on New York's streets after 9/11.
The second Artes Mundi prize was awarded to Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila in 2006.
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