Blog
Explore our blog for a selection of useful guides, articles of interest and our member’s profiles.
Urban Elephant Festival Returns for Another Year
Urban Elephant is back - a festival of friendship, understanding and celebration. World fusion and cross-cultural collaboration takes centre stage in Elephant and Castle this September as the festival will animate the beloved London district.
Windrush Day Raffia Embroidery Workshop with Tihara Smith
On the 22nd of June we had the pleasure of partnering with designer Tihara Smith to deliver a free embroidery workshop for young people aged 16+ to celebrate Windrush Day 2024. With support from Southwark Council’s Windrush 75 Commemoration Fund, we are pleased to be able to offer 10 free spaces for this workshop for young people aged 16+.
Repurposing Retail: From Pharmacy to Gallery
The Hotel Elephant team are always pleased to see our members featured in the press and were delighted to spot Supriya Lele and Donald Ryan in the weekend edition of the Financial Times HTSI magazine. Released on the 9th of September, the article explores Fashion Designer Supriya Lele’s partnership with gallerist Donald Ryan who has recently launched Qrystal Partners, a project space and gallery in the former Pharmacy located on our site in Borough, SE1.
Press Release: Creative Elephant - 16th - 24th September 2023
Hotel Elephant is pleased to present Creative Elephant, a program of events and workshops celebrating the creative and design talents of our studio members for the London Design Festival and Urban Elephant Festival. The program will include a group exhibition of artwork and objects from our members, including textiles, fashion, fine art and jewellery. The exhibition is free to attend and will run for the duration of the festival. Our events program will include participatory workshops and demonstrations from different craftspeople, alongside an evening talk about Chinese Filigree for the Southwark Design District lates program. Booking will be required for the events, please see our website for more details.
Tally's Top 100 Work Spaces
Hotel Elephant is excited and honoured to be featured on Tally's Top 100 Workspaces 2023 for our exceptional coworking space at Spare Street. Tally Workspace is renowned for assisting companies in finding the perfect offices, meeting rooms, and coworking spaces, boasting an impressive selection of over 1,000 options throughout the UK and other locations.
Spare Street Spotlight
This blog post is dedicated to our Hotel Elephant HQ at Spare street, we want to spotlight Spare Street so you can learn more about our space.
New Creative Workspace Coming Soon In Walworth, SE17
The team at Hotel Elephant are excited to be able to share news of our new creative workspace project due to launch in Summer 2022. This new space will be located in Walworth, Elephant and Castle and is very close to our long term home at Spare Street, SE17.
Reuben Powell at the Mall Galleries!
Our very own Reuben Powell’s work has been selected to be among the artworks exhibited, with his work ‘Oil Tanker I, Fawley Refinery’ as part of the Mall Galleries’ Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Exhibition. The exhibition runs from the 30th of September to the 10th of October (10:00am - 5:00pm).