Northern Ireland series: Bendhu House
“the tick of two clocks” is a project based on a trip to Northern Ireland in July 2021.
The images are influenced by the work of the Irish poet, playwright and translator Seamus Heaney who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Bendhu House
On a tight bend between the village and harbour at Balintoy stands the eccentric Bendhu House.
Started in 1936, by Cornishman Newton Penprase, the house took 20 years to build (whilst Penparse was teaching at Belfast College of Art) and takes its name from a nearby headland, Bendhu.
The building has been described as a “strange prickly silhouette and primitive-seeming structure of cubes, squares and rectangles” and has featured in many TV programmes and had many articles written about it.
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All images © W N BISHOP