Using more than 50,000 steel nails to express the human form is not an easy task, yet Marcus Levine manages to depict every muscle tone and contour in works showing at his new show on London’s famous Cork Street. The Yorkshire born sculptor’s artistic background is no surprise (he rubbed shoulders with Damien Hirst at Jacob Kramer Art College), but his long road to the acclaimed position he is in today has been anything but predictable. Levine’s ambition of using nails to bring his visions to life has been 15 years in the making after first working as a TV graphic designer, and then joining the family business. He moved to Budapest in 2004 to pursue his dream of making modern art by hammering nails into white wooden panels at different heights and distances from one another.

This exhibition will include sculptures of male and female models and a sculptured portrait of two children’s faces. Yet even after completion his artworks are often subject to change, as lighting conditions remain integral to creating various shadings and tone.