In pictures: 1920s mug shot wins Wales Artist of the Year prize
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Gangmember, by Usk-based artist Sarah Ball, has won the Wales Artist of the Year 2013 prize. The painting was inspired by a 1920s police mug shot photograph of a New York gang member. Ms Ball said: "'The girl has a fascinating face and is blind in one eye. I thought she looked defiant in the photograph."
John Abell won the runner-up prize with his woodcut print Three Graces: All the Floods Left Them. The formerly homeless artist, 26, searches through skips in Cardiff for discarded pieces of wood to use for carving.
Iwan Bala won the drawing prize for his work Anthem, which depicts the words of the Welsh national anthem Hen Wlad fy Nhadau.
Rhymney Valley-born photographer David Barnes won the photography prize for Swan, which is part of his ongoing King Tide project documenting the lives of communities around south Wales over the past eight years.
Dark Anomaly by Jonathan Anderson was one of two winners of the sculpture prize. The artist used black fibreglass, resin and wood to create the piece.
The other winner of the sculpture prize was Sean Olsen, with his electronic entry Paint-Bot V.2. Judges described it as having the "dormant quality of a sorcerer's apprentice that might be snapped into life at any moment".
Ceramicist Morgen Hall won the applied arts prize for Tapas Set trio, which uses stencil designs derived from the Black Valentine Dwarf French bean.
Patricia Ziad won the student prize for her photograph of the corner of a chapel. The work of all the artists, plus four highly-commended entries and 84 other pieces on the shortlist, is being shown at St David's Hall in Cardiff until Monday 6 August.