Ken Elias is one of the leading artists living and working in Wales. Born in Glynneath in 1944, he is part of that generation of artists of working-class origin influenced by a Fifties
childhood and Sixties art school training. Whilst remaining deeply rooted in the visual culture of South Wales, and of the Valleys in particular, Elias' art has always been responsive to, and
indicative of, the wider world. Its richness is enhanced by his early experience of cinema which, with his love of art and poetry and his employment of memory and imagination, inform his
striking images. Over the past forty years, this combination of influences has produced an impressive body of paintings, photomontage, print and mixed media works. Elias has exhibited widely in
Wales and across the UK and Europe. His work is represented in the principal galleries and museums of Wales, as well as in private collections.
Ken Elias: Thin Partitions surveys Elias' career to date and coincides with a major touring exhibition. Extensively illustrated in colour, it contains a masterly foreword by his Valleys
contemporary, Professor Dai Smith, and essays by Hugh Adams, David Briers, Jon Gower, Anne Price-Owen and Ceri Thomas.
