Competition entry for “Eyecatcher” installation in the Meadow at Compton Verney Art Gallery. An extended greenhouse, growing fruiting plants and herbs, with a central sheep’s-wool-insulated parlour for making ice cream and sorbets.

August 2017

Planning permission has been granted for our scheme to incorporate a 39-room boutique hotel into Camden Methodist Chapel. A new structure will be inserted into the historic brick envelope, retaining a church and community space on the lower levels.

May 2017

As part of Milton Keynes’ 50th birthday celebrations, Milton Keynes Arts Centre invited 50 designers and artists to create plates for their annual fundraiser. Funds raised will help deliver the centre’s outreach programme, targeting those with little or no access to the arts. We dusted our plate with pink and blue chalk.

March 2017

I Want! I Want! - Art and Technology a contemporary art exhibition within the historic Gas Hall at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery opened this month. Design by Manalo & White and Fraser Muggeridge studio. Works selected date from the mid-1990s to the present day and are drawn from the Arts Council Collection, Birmingham’s museum collection and other public and private collections.

March 2017

As a first step towards the transformation of the Horsebridge Arts Centre in Whitstable, Manalo & White designed a pop-up cinema for 2016’s Biennale. Exploring alternative ways of using the building, we opened up an unused staircase, to direct cinema-goers on a new route to the top floor. Between screenings, a projected view of the seafront suggested the potential for future views and new ways of relating to the town.

December 2016

Last week we held workshops with students from the University for the Creative Arts Canterbury, to create 24-hour interventions at the Horsebridge Centre in Whitstable, exploring its spaces and suggesting how it might be adapted. With artists Adam Chodzco and Rosa Ainley, in partnership with Whitstable Biennale.

November 2016

Competition entry for three visitor information shelters at key entry points to Wester Ross in the Scottish Highlands.

October 2016

Focal Point Gallery invited us, alongside every artist who has ever exhibited there, to create a GIF animation for Graphics Interchange Format: 25 Years of Focal Point Gallery, a collaborative project with Fraser Muggeridge studio. Our GIF is a collection of Southend sunsets.

March 2016

Our concept ideas for a travelling Roald Dahl exhibition.

February 2016