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Four of the ten artists to receive Creative Scotland Awards in 2007 are graduates of the GSA. The awards aim to reward and celebrate Scotland’s leading artists and provide them with a record of major achievement and the opportunity to realise their creative ideas in a major project. Kenny Hunter (Sculpture, 1987), Ross Sinclair (MFA, 1992), May M Thomas (Design, 1980) and Henry Coombes (Drawing and painting, 2002) each won an award and will receive a share of the total ¬£30,000 prize. Prevoius award recipient Alison Watt (Drawing and Painting, 1982) used her prize to create Dark Light, a 2.5m metal cube which holds a self contained exhibit that the viewer literally steps into.