Chrysalis Arts was appointed in autumn 2002 by Manchester City Council through Wythenshawe Partnership.The team of artists worked alongside Ellis Williams architects and Laing O'Rourke contractors to integrate the artwork into the £20 million scheme to refurbish the Forum, originally built in the 1970's.

Lead artist Kate Maddison drew together the original artists' team to include: Alan Davis, Janette Ireland, Van Nong, Lauren Sagar and Helen Turner. Tracey Cartledge, Taina Rahkola, Nicky Ruse , Nicky Simpson, Barbara Stephenson, and Frances Taylor joined the team to create the mosaic work. The artists' skill and attention to detail shows in the quality of the finished work and is a testament to the close teamwork that is becoming the recognised trademark of projects by Chrysalis Arts.

The interior artworks for the Forum concourse include; a 25 square metre ceramic floor mosaic, 16 fabric panels, mounted on two steel frames and three steel spirals of 36 glass panels that are suspended under the ceiling sky light.

The exterior artworks located at the two Forum main entrance ways include: two compositions of stainless steel and glass spinning emblems and fibre optic lenses that are mounted on the two sign walls and located at the base of each sign wall across the entrance threshold a linear design of pebble and ceramic mosaic paving.

The artists ran a programme of community workshops to involve Wythenshawe residents in the design process and glass work and ceramic mosaic paving made by local people who participated in the workshops are displayed in the Forum concourse and at the main entrance ways.

There are also 31 banners suspended from lampposts surrounding the Forum, the design for these include details and extracts from the Forum public artworks and additional artwork produced by Wythenshawe residents in the community workshops.

The Wythenshawe Forum is located off Simonsway in Wythenshawe town centre, Manchester. It is open from 6am to 10pm when all the artworks can be viewed by anyone visiting the building.