Orbit

Framed print, Edition of 3 available "Quay Arts 2010 Open winner Katayoun Dowlatshahi has created Orbit – a new body of artwork for The West Gallery, Quay Arts, inspired by a former Cold War rocket testing site on the Island. With the support of National Trust, Astrium in the UK, part of Europe’s largest space company, Mullard - Space Science Laboratory, UCL and Arts Council England, she has co-ordinated a live event at West High Down, The Needles New Battery, formally a secret Cold War rocket testing site, to mark the 40th Anniversary of Prospero - the only British built satellite to be placed into Earth’s orbit atop a British built rocket - Black Arrow, which was built and tested on the Island. "