Press Release

Winner of 2008 Catlin Art Prize Announced

LONDON – Catlin Group Limited (‘CGL’: London Stock Exchange), the international specialty property/casualty insurer and reinsurer, announces that Alex Ball, a 2007 graduate of Central St Martins College of Art and Design, is the winner of the 2008 Catlin Art Prize.

Established in 2007, the Catlin Art Prize recognises the talent of recent graduates of art schools in the United Kingdom.  Entries are accepted from artists the year following their degree exhibitions, allowing them to either create a new body of work or continue to explore previous processes and themes.  The selection process sees the curator of the prize visit exhibitions at every major UK art school to produce an initial shortlist of approximately 20 artists.  The winner receives £3,000.

Alex Ball received the 2008 Catlin Art Prize at a reception held 22 April at LSO St. Lukes in London.  His winning entry consisted of panel paintings for small scale figures and anthropomorphic objects, heavily influenced by Kafka and suggestive of parables and allegories.

Stephen Catlin, chief executive of Catlin Group Limited, said:

“As a leading insurer of fine art, Catlin is proud to recognise and inspire the talent of young British artists. I am pleased to present this year’s Catlin Art prize to Alex Ball, whose paintings were judged as the best among a very strong collection of entries.”

The Catlin Syndicate at Lloyd’s is one of the largest London-based specie underwriters, both by premium volume and individual risk capacity. Fine art clients range from private collectors to  large corporations and museums.

The curator of the Catlin Art prize is Justin Hammond of My Life in Art, a contemporary gallery located at 8 Broadway Market, London E8, which is dedicated to showing the work of emerging artists.  Works by Alex Ball and the other short-listed artists will be on display at My Life in Art from 26 April-31 May.   More information about the exhibition and the short-listed entries is available at www.mylifeinart.com.

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Notes to editors

1.   Catlin Group Limited, headquartered in Bermuda , is an international specialist property/casualty insurer and reinsurer writing more than 30 classes of business worldwide through four underwriting platforms and an international network of offices. Catlin shares are traded on the London Stock Exchange (ticker symbol: CGL). Gross premiums written during 2007 exceeded US$3.3 billion. More information about Catlin can be found at www.catlin.com.
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 Catlin's four underwriting platforms are:

  • The Catlin Syndicate at Lloyd's of London (Syndicate 2003) is a recognised leader of numerous classes of specialty insurance and reinsurance. The Catlin Syndicate is the largest at Lloyd's in 2008 based on premium capacity of £1.25 billion.
  • Catlin Bermuda (Catlin Insurance Company Ltd.), which is a leading participant in the Bermuda market, underwriting a diversified portfolio of property treaty, casualty treaty, political risk and terrorism, and structured risk coverages.
  • Catlin UK (Catlin Insurance Company (UK) Ltd.), which specialises in underwriting commercial non-life insurance for UK clients through a network of regional offices. It also writes other classes of business written by the Catlin Syndicate.

  • Catlin US, which encompasses Catlin's operations based in the United States. Catlin US underwrites a wide variety of specialty property/casualty insurance and reinsurance products from more than 15 offices. Catlin US includes Catlin Insurance Company Inc. and Catlin Specialty Insurance Company Inc.

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Catlin's international network of offices allows the Group to diversify further its risk portfolio and to work more closely with local policyholders and brokers. Besides its offices in the UK, US and Bermuda, Catlin operates offices in Canada, Brazil, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Guernsey, Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Austria.