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The work sits within a tradition of abstract painting that has always been drawn to the cosmic — from Rothko's colour fields to the more recent generation of painters working with light and atmosphere — while remaining unmistakably personal in its execution

Newman's formal precision makes the comparison exact enough to be uncomfortable and funny simultaneously

Lincoln Townley | Skull Banker | Dealer Spaceman Richie Teenage Cancer Trust 25th AnniversaryLincoln Townley (b. 1971) Skull Banker Dealer Mixed media on canvas Original Lincoln Townley's Skull Banker series holds two worlds in tension: the language of finance the banker, the dealer, the mechanisms of capital and the skull, which in Western art from Holbein to Hirst has served as the most direct available statement about what finance ultimately cannot address. Townley is not making a simple anti capitalist argument. He is exploring the