LONDON -- A Scottish artist has painted a version of "The Last Supper" using homeless men as models, to raise awareness of the issues faced by some of Glasgow's most vulnerable.
Painter Iain Campbell used 13 men from Glasgow's City Mission -- a charity which aims to help disadvantaged adults -- to recreate Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting.
Campbell started the painting back in September, according to the BBC, and has worked on it over a period of several months.
.@churchscotland @GoForItCofS @GCMcare last of blocking in the faces on the #LastSupper @_WildOliveTree @sgt_church pic.twitter.com/6tcS0BUj2H— I.D. Campbell (@idcampbellart) December 1, 2015
Reverend Alastair Duncan, the minister for the church at which Campbell is artist-in-residence, explained that the men in Campbell's painting are all disadvantaged or vulnerable in some way.
"The people who Glasgow City Mission supports may be in hostel accommodation, may have their own place or may be genuinely homeless but they are people who in some ways have been vulnerable or are finding a way out of that," he said.
"They just need that consistency of care and support for them whatever stage they are in."
Campbell painted some of the portrait in public and people were able to come up and ask him about it as he worked. "Again and again they said they were surprised that they look like real people rather than some idealised version of The Last Supper," he said.
In the end, Campbell said they decided to name the painting "Our Last Supper".
"It was based on something one of the guys had said to me," said Campbell. "He said: 'I suppose for any one of us this might be our last supper.'"