Stephanie Quayle and her husband Darren Jackson have erected a monumental sculpture of Manannan, the Manx sea god, for Mannifest 2012. The couple’s efforts were documented on BBC NEWS today as the imposing sculpture is installed at the Glen Lough campsite in the Isle of Mann.

The majority of the sculpture was made using materials from Manx gardens, including bracken, conifers and evergreens, while the face is carved from a tree trunk found on the festival site. Stephanie Quayle said, “We like to think that he looks like he could get up and walk back into nature at any point.”

Gravity and Disgrace opens tonight with the private view between 6-8pm. A group show, curated by Rachel Howard, it brings together the work of Jane Simpson and Amelia Newton Whitelaw as well as Howard’s own.

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A new work by Ragner Helgi Ólafsson was revealed on Thursday 5th July at The Demented Diamond of Kling & Bang’s Confected Video Archive. The collective running Kling & Bang present a video installation, The Demented Diamond of Kling & Bang´s Video Archive, of works by numerous artists associated with the gallery. Every two weeks they invite individual artists to take over the installation with solo exhibitions – AXIS MUNDI (For Sydney) is the third this summer.

Iphgenia Baal, author of The Hardy Tree and the soon-to-be-released Gentle Art, will be doing a reading this Saturday at Regret and Embarrassment. A group exhibition bringing together artists, performers and writers, Regret and Embarrassment will take place at The New Gallery in Peckham, organised by Progporn – Friday 13th July – Sunday 15th July.

To The Moon Via The Beach was a new form of exhibition that took place in the Roman Amphitheatre of Arles. It was part of an artistic programme proposed by the LUMA Foundation that aims to give the inhabitants of city and its visitors ‘the chance to encounter the work and ideas of several contemporary visual artists’, including Stephanie Quayle.

At the start of the exhibition, visitors encountered an arena covered in 700 tonnes of sand. Over the course of four days, the terrain was slowly transformed from a beach to a lunar landscape by a team of world-class sculptors, such as Stephanie, led by Wilfred Stijger. The site, under constant motion, acted as a backdrop to a series of interventions from the artists who produced works in and around the arena.

Stephanie Quayle with one of her sand-sculpting team mates at To The Moon Via The Beach, Arles, July 2012

The team developing the arena into a moonscape, in an exhibition which does nothing to differentiate between production, presentation and exchange.

Craters begin to appear as the moonscape develops.

The sculpted arena became the backdrop for performance and events such as Colony Collapse which utilised bees.

OjodePez Photo Meeting Barcelona is an international photographers’ forum organised by La Fábrica and La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, under the auspices of the documentary photography magazine OjodePez.

The meeting included photography portfolio viewings, lectures by professionals, photo screenings, talks, meetings for professionals, and public lectures where participants and those who attended could share new experiences.

Hannah Watson took part in a round table discussion which dealt with the subject of publishing a Photo Book and attended the other events on offer:

Photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews discusses her most recent project.

Director of PHotoEspana Claude Bussac joins a panel discussion with Laura Serani and Delphine Lelu on Photography Festivals.

Patricia Mendoza talks about Mexican Photography.

Trolley publications Surrounded By No One, Agent Orange – Collateral Damage In Viet Nam, Viet Nam At Peace, Open Wound and Homeland on display at La Fábrica.

An Excellent Trolley by Lucy Tomlins!