🏙️ Where the City Pauses and Listens
In metropolitan cities like London, the most meaningful connections rarely happen in formal settings. They emerge instead in places where people pause, observe and exchange ideas.
This is the spirit behind Creative Spaces Networking Midday, hosted by Natalia Giacomino and Paola Minekov at Creations Atelier, within Little Louie at Elephant Park.
The event also marks the final opportunity to experience the three-month exhibition City Meets Earth — and an invitation to help shape what comes next.
🎨 City Meets Earth: Art Beyond the Wall
At its heart, the exhibition has always been about more than an art display on the wall.
Set within Elephant Park — a site layered with histories of community, displacement and renewal — City Meets Earth acts as a meeting point for diverse voices, bringing together artists and architects, developers, collectors and local residents.
Photography, painting, sculpture, glass and digital media coexist in a space that feels reflective yet alive, addressing how we inhabit cities, how memory lingers in place, and how nature continues to dialogue with the built environment.
🖌️ The Artists: Many Voices, One Conversation
Among the exhibiting artists are Michelle Baharia, Paola Minekov, Natalia Giacomino, Vita Cofano, Carry Hornby, Mark Coster, Nia Russo, Valentina Marini, Rosie Arnoldi, Dil Vahidova and Caz Dowdall.
Each artist brings a distinct visual language, yet together they form a cohesive conversation about movement, memory, urban experience and our relationship with the natural world — a dialogue that resonates strongly within a neighbourhood shaped by regeneration and change.
🏛️ Natalia Giacomino: Art, Architecture and Community
Artist and architect Natalia Giacomino, Co-Founder of Creations Atelier and architect at NGA & Partners, plays a central role in shaping the exhibition’s vision. Her bold, rhythmic works respond to universal forms and balance, echoing her architectural approach to space and structure.
Natalia said:
“Art has always been a meeting point,” she reflects.
“When people from different backgrounds stand in front of the same work, they bring their own stories with them. That exchange creates community. It may start with only one afternoon, but people keep coming back — and for me, this is priceless.”
This ethos has guided the Creative Spaces series since its launch, positioning it as a cultural salon where artists and professionals from property, interiors, wellbeing and culture meet not as separate sectors, but as collaborators.
🤝 Creative Spaces: Networking With Intention
Rather than traditional networking, Creative Spaces focuses on conversations sparked by art. Guests are encouraged to explore the exhibition together, exchange perspectives and allow ideas to develop organically — without pitches, but with curiosity.
The initiative continues into 2026 with monthly events planned at Estila House in Farringdon, alongside new exhibitions and community-led cultural projects.
🔮 A Closing Moment, Looking Forward
As City Meets Earth comes to a close, attention turns to the future.
Art, in this context, becomes a form of remembering — and a tool for imagining what cities can still become. Sometimes, the most important developments begin quietly: with people standing together, observing, talking and envisioning what comes next.
🐬 ELBY’s Note – The silent conscience of italynews.it
“In cities defined by speed and transformation, art reminds us to slow down. City Meets Earth shows that creativity is not only an aesthetic act, but a social one — capable of reconnecting places, people and memory, and restoring a human scale to urban life.”
📍 Event Details
🗓 30 January 2026
⏰ 12:00 – 2:00 pm
📍 Little Louie, 14 Ash Avenue, Elephant Park – London
✍️ Byline
London Editorial Desk – ItalyNews.it
