AN artist has created a modern take on The Last Supper – replacing saints and apostles with homeless men from Glasgow.
Iain Campbell used the project to highlight the plight of the homeless at Christmas by depicting an evening at Glasgow City Mission.
His painting shows 13 men sitting around a table eating, drinking and talking, loosely based on Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper.
The 40-year-old first considered depicting politicians and famous faces but decided instead to portray people on the margins of society.
Campbell, artist in residence for the Church of Scotland at Glasgow’s St George’s Tron Church, said: “People keep asking me which one is Jesus, and when we were setting up the composition of the 13 guys I deliberately didn’t compose it to imagine ‘this one’s Jesus, this one’s Judas,’ and so on.”
He added: “Any one of them could represent Jesus.”
Arthur Curtis is shown in the painting. Now in housing association accommodation in Govan, he visited the Buchanan Street church this week to see Campbell’s work.
The 55-year-old said: “It’s absolutely stunning, incredible.”
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