a year in review 2022

2022 marked a very special year for us as FPM turned 30. As we put together some celebratory film footage and compiled material for the exclusive printed supplement that was included with the summer issue of Treasures of Malta, we were able to look back with a sense of pride, achievement and gratitude.

Works on the new premises at St Paul’s Street, Valletta have been going on at full steam with the intention of opening in 2023. The building is undergoing a complete overhaul to accommodate both the Victor Pasmore Gallery as well as the FPM office space. The team have also been hard at work on our forthcoming exhibition, In Search of Line which is set to open in the newly refurbished space. A new website for the gallery has also been designed and will launch early next year.

We have kept up a strong social media presence both for FPM and Palazzo Falson and have relaunched the Victor Pasmore channels. We do our best to keep in touch with our followers and supporters through our weekly mailshots and monthly newsletters, whilst other articles relating to both FPM and Palazzo Falson are published monthly in the AirMalta magazine Il-Bizzilla.

This year we have a new publishing agreement with Kite Group Publishers. They will be responsible for all our publications. We are greatly looking forward to this collaboration, as aside from the quarterly art journal Treasures of Malta we also have some very collectable and well researched books in the pipeline this year.

The energetic team at Palazzo Falson have continued to organise tours, lectures, children’s workshops, collaborations and TV features, always striving for high standards and culminating in the Friends of the Museum overseas trip which took place in Palermo, Sicily this year.

Our podcast series Treasures from Malta hosted by Francesca Balzan has gone from strength to strength as a fourth season is now being released.

As always, our wholehearted thanks goes out to our generous Patrons, Benefactors and Assosiates, without whose support we would not be able to accomplish all that we do.

Joseph Grioli Chairman