The Valleys at National Museum of Wales, Cardiff

Ken Grant contributed a key piece, Blaenavon Horses 2004, from his work made over three decades in the South Wales Valleys. Exhibited for the first time, it was amongst over 200 artworks - painting, photography, film and applied art - in an exhibition that drew on the lives and landscape of the Valleys and the people who lived and worked there to acknowledge how these communities made a vital contribution to the modern world.

In the 20th century, global forces placed huge economic and social pressures on these communities. Artists responded to produce a unique and internationally important representation of working-class experience, and yet this visual tradition remains largely unknown.

The exhibition profiled work by over 60 internationally known artists including Tina Carr and Annemarie Schöne, Robert Frank, Josef Herman, and Ernest Zobole as well as introducing the work of collier artists and makers including Nicholas Evans, Harry Rodgers and Illtyd David. Ken Grant's contribution, from the series Cwm - The Fair Country, considers the post-industrial communities through the oblique and entwined strategies of landscape, text and autobiography.