Glasgow-trained artist Duncan Campbell has won this year's Turner Prize for his series of films called It For Others.

Campbell's win cements the domination of the Glasgow School of Art over the UK's contemporary arts scene and will be a further boost to its reputation in a year which it was rocked by a fire that tore through its historic Mackintosh building.

The blaze engulfed the Grade A-listed building, leading to the loss of about a tenth of the structure and a third of its contents, causing shock around the city and the arts world.

He is the fourth graduate from the school's Master of Fine Art Programme to win the prize in the last 10 years.

The school's director Professor Tom Inns said: "The Glasgow School of Art warmly congratulates Duncan Campbell on winning the Turner Prize.

"This is a great accolade both for Duncan and for the Glasgow School of Art. Duncan becomes our fifth winner of this prestigious award since 1996 and the fourth graduate of our Master of Fine Art programme to win since 2005."

"Duncan and all the previous GSA winners and shortlisted artists are a great inspiration to the current generation of students and the wider visual art community here in Glasgow."

A leading German art curator Hans Ulrich Obrist has called the consistent success of the Scottish arts scene, the "Glasgow miracle".

The spectacular success of Glasgow-based or Glasgow-trained artists has been celebrated, analysed and questioned ever since Douglas Gordon became the first Scot to win the Turner Prize in 1996.

This year's short list, again, had strong links to the city. Campbell, Ciara Phillips and Tris Vonna-Michell all studied at the Glasgow School of Art and both Campbell and Phillips live and work in the city.

12 Years A Slave star Chiwetel Ejiofor presented the £25,000 prize to Campbell at a ceremony at Tate Britain in central London.The judges said his work, which takes in African art and iconic images from the Troubles in Northern Ireland, was "topical and compelling".

He was firm favourite to win as soon as the shortlist was announced, with The Guardian's Laura Cumming calling him "the only obvious winner" and the Daily Telegraph's Richard Dorment saying he was "the real thing as an artist".

Accepting his prize, Campbell said:"This money will make a huge difference to me, even being nominated for the prize has given me great heart."

The Turner Prize has a reputation for controversy. Previous winners have included Martin Creed's installation featuring a light going on and off and Grayson Perry's pots tackling subjects like death and child abuse.

Campbell is the seventh artist with Scottish links to take the prize since 1996.

His work was made for the Scotland + Venice show, which was curated by Glasgow's Common Guild gallery and visual arts organisation in 2013.

Last year, David Shrigley, who trained and lives and works in Glasgow, was up for the award.

Between 2009 and 2011 there was a hat-trick of wins for artists connected to the city - Richard Wright in 2009, Susan Philipsz in 2010 and Martin Boyce in 2011.

Simon Starling, also a GSA student, and Martin Creed, who grew up in Lenzie, have also won the award.

And over the years, the shortlists for the prize have featured many Scottish artists, including Karla Black, Nathan Coley, Anya Gallacio, Jim Lambie, Cathy Wilkes, Lucy Skaer, and Luke Fowler.

The success of Scottish and Glasgow artists led over the years for calls for the prize, which incorporates and exhibition and an award ceremony, to be staged in Scotland.

It will be held at the Tramway venue in Glasgow next year.