Artes Mundi award for India art

Artist NS Harsha's work questions the tradition of Indian culture

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.