Jane Morris | Art Newspaper

Jane Morris is a journalist, writer and broadcaster who specialises in the visual arts. She is an editor-at-large at The Art Newspaper and arts publisher Cultureshock, has a regular column at Apollo, and contributes to the Economist, Monocle, the Financial Times and Tortoise. She was the editor of The Art Newspaper for almost a decade. She was previously head of editorial at the Museums Association, and a judge of the European Museum of the Year Award. She has contributed to BBC Radio 3, Radio 4 and Monocle 24 radio, and has written for national newspapers including The Guardian and The Independent. She studied fine art at University of the Arts London (Central St Martin’s), and journalism at City University, London. 

Catherine Hill | Forsters and Artistate

Catherine heads the Art and Cultural Property team at Forsters, a leading London law firm where she has been a partner since 2008.  She has many years' experience acting for living artists and their families, including several leading contemporary figures, on legacy, succession and taxation issues. Catherine also advises collectors, galleries and museums and acts as trustee and executor for many of her artist clients.

Highly ranked in the latest Chambers UK Guide for Art and Cultural Property Law, Catherine is described as having ‘an excellent reputation for dealing with contemporary artists and their estates. She is extremely knowledgeable in this space and has all the contacts that artists need”. Catherine also collaborates with specialist art advisors via Artistate Limited, an organisation that she co-founded to provide the complementary services required to support artists and their estates secure an enduring legacy.

Ben Bowling | Frank Bowling Studio

Ben Bowling is co-director of Frank Bowling Studio and Emeritus Professor of Criminology at King's College London. His books include Young People and Crime (1995), Violent Racism (1999) Policing the Caribbean (2010) and The Politics of the Police (2020). As co-director of Frank Bowling studio (with his brother, Sacha Bowling), he leads a professional studio team and works with galleries and museums freeing Sir Frank to make the critically acclaimed work that is at the heart of his painting practice. Bowling moonlights as a musician; his band perform regularly across the UK and Europe; their fourth album––Doc Bowling and his Blues Professors Sing the American Songbag––was released in 2025.

Nick Willing | Paula Rego Estate 

Nick Willing looks after the estates of his parents, Paula Rego and Victor Willing; their collection, archive, studio and Catalogue Raisonné, as well as the museum in Cascais, Portugal: Casa Das Historias, Paula Rego. He is currently working on 23 museum exhibitions worldwide, as well as three commercial shows at Rego’s galleries - Victoria Miro Gallery, Cristea Roberts Gallery and Galeria 111. His responsibilities also include assessing the artist’s many reproduction rights requests, and fact checking articles, essays and books before publication. He is currently establishing the Paula Rego Foundation which will protect and maintain the legacies of both artists.

Nick is a film maker, with a long and distinguished career spanning 40 years as a screen writer and director. Although most of his work is in drama, In 2017 he released the feature documentary on his mother - Paula Rego, Secrets and Stories - commissioned by the BBC, which won both the Grierson and RTS awards for Best Documentary of 2017.

Godfrey Worsdale | Henry Moore Foundation

Trained as an art historian in London, Godfrey Worsdale’s curatorial career began in the early 1990s in the British Museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings. In 1994 he simultaneously established Cultural Instructions; an exhibition space in London dedicated to contemporary projects. He joined Southampton City Art Gallery as curator in 1995 becoming its Director three years later.

In 2002 he was appointed to be founding Director of MIMA - Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. This was followed in 2008 by seven years as Director of BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, where he also founded BALTIC 39; a new space dedicated to research and experimentation in partnership with Northumbria University: one of many collaborations with academia.

Worsdale has served as a judge and selector for the 2011 Turner Prize and the 54th and 57th Venice Biennales. In 2015 he became the Director of the Henry Moore Foundation, dividing his time between Perry Green in Hertfordshire where Moore lived and worked, and the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. Worsdale was awarded an OBE for services to the visual arts, and currently sits on the Advisory Board of World Art Foundations; a hub for art foundations worldwide.

James Ferrer | Lockton

James is an experienced leader in the art insurance market with over 20 years of related experience. He oversees and is responsible for arranging insurance on both a retail and wholesale basis, for Fine Art risks globally.

James has extensive experience in insuring a diverse range of clients including art foundations, art dealers, auctioneers, museum collections and exhibition programmes around the globe. He works with fine art valuers, shippers and loss adjusters to provide clients with a broad range of support services. He is based in London and arranges insurance solutions using Lloyd’s of London specialist fine art markets.

James has worked for Sotheby’s auctioneers; as an appraiser for Chubb and he has been a fine art insurance broker for over 15 years.

Insuring art against natural catastrophe risks

Recent years have seen a substantial increase in the severity and frequency of natural catastrophe events of all kinds, from hurricanes and floods to wildfires and droughts. For art stakeholders, including institutions, dealers and owners, such events pose a substantial risk to the safety of collections. Taking steps to proactively mitigate this risk is crucial to avoiding a major loss.

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New EU regulation on cultural goods: risk implications and guidance

New EU regulations to be introduced in June 2025 will ban cultural goods illegally exported from third countries from entering the EU. In addition, any party who imports cultural goods that originated outside the EU will face heightened due diligence requirements. The regulations are set to have a profound impact on dealers, collectors, and cultural institutions. Engaging with provenance research, legal advisors, and insurance professionals will be essential for anyone trading or collecting art.

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