Sui Generis - the first exhibition

April 2019 - 67 projects from 66 creatives and collaborative groups filled the entirety of Plas Bodfa. This remarkably multi-disciplinary group art exhibition explored the idea of ‘sui generis’, a Latin phrase meaning "of its (his, her, their) own kind; in a class by itself; unique”. It has been adopted by the legal profession for unusual buildings, properties that fall outside normal designation. Over 1,400 visitors attended the show!

Sui Generis - the Book

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The Works

Following the exhibition, we published a book illustrating the unique relationship that the works, performances and installations had with the history and textures of the house.

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Wales Art Review announced Sui Generis as one of the top 10 visual arts highlights of 2019!
See their “Welsh Visual Arts - Best of 2019”
Congratulations to all of the 66 creatives that made Sui Generis such a highlight of 2019!

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'Taking Back Control' by Michael Prince

'The Wall Dedicated to Lost Places' by Trish Birmingham & Clare Brumby

'Pimp my Hearth' by Janina Holloway

'Beautiful Board Games' by Adrenaline Brush Board Games

'Sound Books' by Sterly and Snell

The Sound Book Project

'Memorialising Disease' by Helen Birnbaum (Copy) (Copy)

'Foundations #1, #2' by Lara Usherwood (Copy) (Copy)

'The Window is as Important' by Wendy Dawson (Copy) (Copy)

'Intercontinental Geo-transplant' by Arni Gudmundsson (Copy) (Copy)

'Fy Lle / My Place' by Ness Owen (Copy) (Copy)

Fy Lle / My Place by Ness Owen (Copy) (Copy)

'Illumination' by Rhona Bowey & Heather Hudson (Copy) (Copy)

'The Challenge of being Certain about Uncertainty' by Judy Moody-Stuart (Copy) (Copy)

'Silent Telephone' by Justine Montford (Copy) (Copy)

'Frozen Angel' by Seana Cragg & Martin Daws (Copy) (Copy)

'Dragons' by Karen Ankers (Copy) (Copy)

'cynhyrchu harddwch o'r ddaer' by Jan Hale (Copy) (Copy)

'Women Fighting for Peace' by Ness Owen (Copy) (Copy)

'Penumbra' by Ioan Griffith (Copy) (Copy)

'All In, Plas Bodfa' by Jayne Lawless (Copy) (Copy)

'I grab you' by Secil Yaylali & Belit Sag (Copy) (Copy)

'The Many Loves of a House' by Mel Robers (Copy) (Copy)

'Tarlabasi - Istanbul, Not Here.' By Jonathan Lewis (Copy) (Copy)

'The Things we Found in the House #1, #2, #3' by Josie Jenkins (Copy) (Copy)

'Absences' by Stephen Green (Copy) (Copy)

'Potential Energy' by Harri Carmichael (Copy) (Copy)

'Comfort Zone' by Ulgen Semerci (Copy) (Copy)

Quite Frankly by Peter Hughes (Copy) (Copy)

'The Plas Bodfa Heritage Project' by Michelle Kit (Copy) (Copy)

'Row Houses' by Cathy Wrobel (Copy) (Copy)

'The Poetics of Space' by Lin Cummins (Copy) (Copy)

'Swarm Procession' by Pat Arnao (Copy) (Copy)

'The Journey is Home' by Debbie Budenberg (Copy) (Copy)

'Parteong / Basged' by Veronica Calarco (Copy) (Copy)

'Entangled threads' by David Garner & Wanda Garner (Copy) (Copy)

'the Steakhouse' by Anne Weshinskey & Arni Gudmundsson (Copy) (Copy)

'Like the night, no not even like' by Tom Witherick (Copy) (Copy)

'Parteong / Basged' by Genesis Dove (Copy) (Copy)

'Across the strait' by Christopher Bond (Copy) (Copy)

autonomous paintings by Philip Cassidy (Copy) (Copy)

'Immure' by Tammy Woodrow (Copy) (Copy)

'Quite Frankly - revisioning Petrarch's poetry' by Peter Huges (Copy) (Copy)

'In the Presence Of' by Trish Bermingham (Copy) (Copy)

'Celebration Moondust' by Chaparral Andrew Hodges (Copy) (Copy)

Celebration Moondust by Chaparral Andrew Hodges (Copy) (Copy)

'Once Upon a Time, Long Ago and Far Away' by Fiona Davies (Copy) (Copy)

'Lost and Found' by Jane Ross (Copy) (Copy)

'Order and Disorder' by John Smith (Copy) (Copy)

'In their footsteps' by Helen Danson (Copy) (Copy)

'Corridrawings' by Remy Dean (Copy) (Copy)

'In Lieu...(All We Are)' by Remy Dean (Copy) (Copy)

'Live Wires' by Harri Carmichael (Copy) (Copy)

'receptor' by Marirose Pritchard (Copy) (Copy)

'The Captain' by Alan Whitfield (Copy) (Copy)

'Joskin Ripper' by Helmet (Copy) (Copy)

Joskin Ripper by Helmet (Copy) (Copy)

'Dialogue' by Nicola Carter (Copy) (Copy)

'Raw Forms' by Whispering Dishes (Copy) (Copy)

'Sole Holes' by Sarah Ryder (Copy) (Copy)

' Alba Avis : The Unhomely Cage' by Rhys Trimble (Copy) (Copy)

'The Birds' by Michael Prince (Copy) (Copy)

'Fabric #3, #4' by Lara Usherwood (Copy) (Copy)

'Plas Bodfa' by Lee Duggan (Copy) (Copy)

Plas Bodfa by Lee Duggan (Copy) (Copy)

'Retroscope and Miniscope' by Peter Appleton (Copy) (Copy)

'The Plasterer's Apprentice' by Jayne Lawless (Copy) (Copy)

'The Exotics' by Ol Guse (Copy) (Copy)

In 1920 the walls of Plas Bodfa were built to contain a domestic dwelling, an interior space in which people lived their lives. Then their meaning changed. They contained a restaurant, and then a residential care home, then a tapestry kit company complete with a gift shop and tea room. Finally, the walls contained nothing, the house has been empty for the last twelve years, until artist Julie Upmeyer and her husband Jonathan Lewis bought the property last year.

What are the possibilities of a house? With performance and painting, collage and ceramics, skateboarding and singing, poetry and polyrhythmic drumming, fairytales and photography, games and gramophones, sculpture and storytelling, re-enactments and a retroscope, this exhibition was a one-time opportunity to fill the currently vacant 36 room / 1,000 sqm space with creative acts, before complete renovation began.

Sui Generis was a project of Julie Upmeyer, an artist and initiator.

Sui Generis was part of the Anglesey Art Weeks – Open Studios and Galleries 2019.

Alan Whitfield Chaparral Andy Hodges Anne Weshinskey Arni Gudmundsson belit sag Cathy Wrobel
Christopher Bond Charles Gershom David Garner Debbie Budenberg Fiona Davies Genesis Dove
Ed Wright Whispering Dishes Harri Carmichael Heather Hudson Helen Birnbaum
Helen Danson Ioan Griffith Jan Hale
Jane Ross Jayne Lawless Janina Holloway Jonathan Lewis Jonathan Smith
Josie Jenkins Justine Montford
Judy Moody-Stuart Karen Ankers Lara Usherwood Lee Duggan
Lin Cummins Marirose Pritchard Martin Daws
Mel Roberts Michael Prince Mishelle Kit Nisa Ojalvo Nicola Carter
Ol Guse Pat Arnao Peter Appleton
Peter Hughes Philip Cassidy Remy Dean Rhona Bowey
Rhys Trimble Helmet Hopewell Ink Seana Cragg
Sarah Ryder Secil Yayali Sound Book Project Stephen Green
Sterly and Snell Tammy Woodrow Tom Witherick
Trish Bermingham Clare Brumby Ulgen Semerci Ness Owen Veronica Calarco
Adrenaline Brush Board Games Wanda Garner Wendy Dawson

Sui Generis - the first exhibition

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