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.