Echoes of Life in Malta, paintings by Richard Cole
28 March - 12 April 2025
Curated by Marika Azzopardi
Richard Cole's connection with Malta started in 1975 during Malta's Independence when he drew a cartoon in the Times of London of the Prime Minister Dom Mintoff as Napoleon kicking the British bulldog into the Mediterranean sea. Malta Airways presented the original to the Prime Minister and Cole exchanged the cartoon for a return air ticket to Malta. He came back from his short stay with an exciting portfolio of paintings and drawings and has enthusiastically continued painting the beautiful islands and their inhabitants ever since. He wrote and illustrated the book 'Malta and Gozo, An Artist's View' showing his experiences in Malta and Gozo with a collection of drawings and paintings created over a 40 year period. It was published by Miller Malta in 2019.
Pioneering Early Photography : Postal Photographs by Richard Ellis
24 March - 31 December 2025
Our First Floor Gallery is showing a photographic exhibition of a number of rare black and white photos taken in the early 1920’s by English photographer Richard Ellis. The prints focus exclusively on the General Post Office in Merchant’s Street and also take us behind the scenes to the sorting rooms where Malta’s mail was readied for dispatching.
