"New Line Continued" 2018
Oil on canvas
77' x 101' inches / 196 x 257 cm
Marcus Levine
2013/2014 3rd November – 9th January Exhibiting at Gallery 32, Harrogate,
North Yorkshire
2013 I have been invited by Leeds City Council to exhibit three Sensory sculptures as part of Light Night in Trinity Leeds shopping centre in October
2013 Exhibiting my monumental Sculpture Hung Out to Dry in Lister Park, Bradford and my Oak Sensory sculpture at the University of Bradford
2013 Solo Exhibition at Gallery 27 Cork Street from October 28th-2nd of November
2013 July/August Solo Pop up Art Exhibition in Ilkley West Yorkshire
2013 18th April- 12th May Exhibited at the Bingley Gallery
2013 March Exhibited JA Festival in Leeds and appeared on ITV’s Calendar News2013 Cork Street Winter Open
2012 Exhibited at the Lancaster Hotel for one night for the Variety Club of Great Britain’s charity Stag night where I was invited to donate a sculpture as part of the fund raising.
2012 Grand unveiling of Commissioned sculpture of Hygeia Goddess of Health and Beauty at the Warfedale Ball in front of 750 guests.2012 I have been invited to continue to exhibit my monumental sculpture in Lister Park, Bradford.
2012 Exhibited at the World Heritage site of Saltaire in the United Reformed Church where I exhibited Hand of the Carpenter for six months.
2012 Exhibited at Lapicida in Knaresborough, a continuing exhibition of changing work.
2011 Exhibited two monumental Sculptures in the Light shopping mall as part of Leeds Light Night and stayed for a month, combined with a Sponsors dinner at Brassiere Blanc’s where I exhibited a Whisky sculpture in the restaurant and a third location at Bang & Olfsen’s upstairs showroom where I exhibited for 3 months.
2011 Exhibited a monumental 3.3m high solid Oak sensory sculpture commissioned by the British Science Festival. I was also invited to give a talk about my work as part of the festival. Located at the University of Bradford.
2011 Exhibited in the grounds of Cartwright Hall as part of Sculpture in the Park.
2011 Exhibited at Cartwright Hall Bradford Civic Art Gallery for six months in gallery 5
2011 Exhibited at Harvey Nichols 4th Floor Café and restaurant
2010 Exhibited at The Air Gallery, Dover Street solo exhibition
2010 Exhibited at the Finite Gallery summer show, Spring Show
2009 Exhibited at Gallery 27 Cork street solo exhibition
2009 Exhibited at the Finite Gallery autumn show, summer show, Spring show
2008 Opened my own gallery (The Finite Gallery) in Leeds and exhibited for the first time2007 Exhibited at the Radisson SAS Hotel as part of Leeds Light night first solo exhibitionWorked Part time as an artist and in the family business
1988-2009 During this period my artistic focus was on Acrylic portraits, watercolour landscapes, and photography.
In 2007 I did my first solo exhibition and by 2009 I went fully time into my artistic practise.Working as a TV Designer for Harlec Television Bristol (HTV) 1987-88I was responsible for teaching myself how to use the newly arrived Quantel Paintbox, to create exciting and new digital graphics for the News desk, Elections, breakfast TV, along with creating title sequences for new programs. The Quantel paintbox has recently been famously used for creating the animation sequences for the Avatar motion picture.
Education
STG BA(Hons) Art degree course, Falmouth University 1983-87A four year Arts degree course with work experience in the third year, I found a place with HTV Bristol and was later offered a full time job on my return after finishing my degree in 1987Fine Art diploma, Jacob Kramer college of Art, Leeds 1982 I studied along side Damien Hirst, other Alumni included David Hockney