BRIT ARTIST LINCOLN TOWNLEY CELEBRATES 10 YEARS  OF THE BANKERS COLLECTION WITH SPECIAL SHOW AT VENICE’S RENOWNED LA BIENNALE  
BRIT artist Lincoln Townley has celebrated ten years of the successful Bankers Collection with a special show at the world renowned La Biennale in Venice. The London born artist’s biggest show to date will be unveiled today (April 17) at a VIP preview at the prestigious Palazzo Bembo on the Grand Canal.

The collection of 24 abstract figurative oil paintings explore the controversial obsession with money, power and greed focussing on the world of bankers. 
The unique show runs for eight months and the works will be ‘refreshed’ throughout the show every two and half months, giving collectors who have already bought the paintings the opportunity to see the works exhibited at such an iconic event. 

The powerful paintings, some reaching sizes of over eight feet square, will be on display to the world’s art lovers and buyers in Venice from April 20th - November 24.
The prestigious show has been eighteen months in the planning and this is the third time Townley has successfully exhibited at La Biennale.

The 24 works are priced £160,000 to £425,000 and have already been bought by bankers and global financial gurus who resonate with the powerful images.
Lincoln Townley said “I have always looked at greed as a very positive energy. In the case of my sell out show at the Venice Biennale, it’s all about power consuming power, the savage god that my buyers worship! It’s the god we see only when we have the courage and the honesty to look beyond good and evil, to suspend our judgment and see our ravenous species for what it is. My collectors see themselves in my work, they hang these oil works with pride and celebrate the fact that they push boundaries to secure 100 per cent of the deals they are working on within their financial world. There is glory in greed and glory can only be acquired through risk.”

One of the UK’s most successful modern artists, Townley’s dramatic rise to fame in the global art market has seen him grow from ten years ago to today where his work sells for in excess of £1million. His original oil paintings of demons drawn from the unconscious mind, have been exhibited at major international galleries including the National Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Los Angeles and the Brisbane Powerhouse.