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A BLAZING row has broken out after an “offensive” plaque saw an installation removed from a Shoebury park. Gabriella Hirst, artist and creator of An English Garden, claims her work has now been removed from Gunners Park after “complaints and threats” were made by Southend Tory councillors. The plaque had intended to highlight the site’s proximity to the ranges where Britain assembled its early atomic weaponry in the 1950s. But Tony Cox, Tory leader of the opposition, said it had offended residents. The plaque read: “In 1952, Britain’s first atomic device was assembled at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment on Foulness Island, only six miles from this location.
Artangel opens a major new project on the Suffolk coast
Alice Channer, Lethality and Vulnerability (2021) on Orford Ness, Suffolk.
ORFORD NESS
.- A series of major new commissions by international artists are being presented this summer by Artangel on Orford Ness a windswept strip of land stretching several miles along the Suffolk coast owned by the National Trust and known locally as the island of secrets.
Accessible only by boat, Orford Nesss environment shifts from mud flats, salt marshes and brackish lagoons, to shingle ridges that are home to a unique ecosystem of flora and fauna and an eroding coastline. An assortment of abandoned structures punctuate the desolate landscape, apparitions from the time when Orford Ness was used by the British military during both World Wars as a test site for radio, radar and ballistics systems, and for the UKs atomic weapons research programme during the Cold War.
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