The Gristlehaus Archive
The archive of Erno Ambrose Gristlehaus (1870-1911): naturalist, collector, institutional exile.
His expeditions across the Carpathians, Borneo, and the Pacific Northwest yielded specimens that defied classification. Morphological anomalies. Skeletal contradictions. Cultural artifacts of unknown provenance. Each meticulously documented, systematically preserved, quietly dismissed by academic institutions.
Today, working from his surviving field notes and specimen records, sculptor Stuart Ure reconstructs the collection. Hand-sculpted originals. Silicone molds. Archival resin casts. Each piece reclaims what institutional science chose to ignore.
The work continues. The questions remain unanswered.
