Cat Irving

@anatomicalcat.bsky.social

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Human Remains Conservator at Surgeons’ Hall. Snake charmer. Beagle feeder. All-round general necromancer

A woman and a man sat at a table with microphones. The background is purple and behind them is a bookcase with a neon light which says ‘after dark’
A picture of a woman with red curly hair looking up thoughfully
A poster for Betwixt the Sheets live featuring a framed image of a woman with a fig leaf over her genitalia and pictures of Kate lister, cat Irving and Eleanor Janega
A poster on a cream back ground with a dissected body and the text ‘Then and Now A history of Dissection and Body Donation with Professor Paul Rea and Cat Irving 12th May 2026 Lecture Theatre 236 Thomson Building University of Glasgow’
A red haired woman in a black dress walking either arms outstretched with an image of lithotomy on the screen behind her
A skull carved out of whale bone/ivory with green jewels on the eye sockets. Against a geeen background
A laptop screen with the words CONVERSATIONS WITH THE DEAD: The Lives of Human Remains by Cat Irving
A women with red curly hair and a black velvet dress looking into a glass case holding an wax anatomical model.
A book called the beauty of anatomy with a purplish cover featuring an anatomical Venus. Sitting on a woods table with a plant pot in the shape of a skull behind
A sitting and a standing ceramic female figure, they are both turquoise and have half their heads anatomised. The standing figure has their abdomen opened and has their hand outstretched holding an apple
An embroidered skeleton in a gold coffin shaped mount against a green wall
Shelves of skulls
An arched vault with a pile of bones in front of shelves of skulls
A wax model of a male head with a thin dark moustache tilted back. The jaw and front of the throat are removed and five coloured ribbons are attached stretching downwards
A wax model showing a head severed at the neck. The face is of a man with eye closed and lips slightly open. The skin is pulled down, shading the eyes. The brain can be seen. The model is on an ebonised base against a background of Yves Klein blue.
A pale brick wall with a black crucifix mounted on it. On the crucifix is a flayed plaster figure.
A figure of a death as an anthropomorphised death in a robe clutching an arrow in grey stone the foreground with a red stone gothic building behind.
A figure of a death as an anthropomorphised death in a robe clutching an arrow in grey stone the foreground with a red stone gothic building behind.
A mirror in the shape of a gothic window set against a grey wall. There is a roundel with a portrait of a man in the arch. The reflective surface of the mirror is very degraded and you can just make out a woman with long red hair stood in front of a portrait.
A wax model of the head seen from the right side and dissected. It is positioned on a white cloth on a wooden board.
A model of a dissected figure photographed from mid torso upwards. The head is turned towards the viewer. The background is a golden wood.
Poster with an illustration of a dissected body and the text Then and Now A history of Dissection and Body Donation with Professor Paul Rea and Cat Irving 12th May 2026 Lecture Theatre 236 Thomson Building University of Glasgow
A wax model showing the head in sagittal section.
Steps lined with human skulls. Behind is a wall of bones.
A black wall tomb with a white skeleton holding up a black sheet.
A book with sylised memento mori imagery in black and red entitled ‘curious coffins and riveting rituals: death practices around the world’ by YY Liak
A wooden alter with a cross sitting on top and an large elaborate metal crucifix leaning against the front. There are skulls piled on top and round the base. The wall behind it is made of nearly stacked long bones interspersed with skulls.
A skull, tilted back, and vertebrae down to t2 with some of the facial muscles and nerves depicted in wax. The right first rib is also present. Mounted on an ebonised wooden base against a dark grey background
A wax model shown from the manubrium sternum up. The anatomical structures of the neck are visible. There is a wax pillow behind the neck, and the head - with face undisected - lols back
A museum interpretation board entitled William Macewen: at the cutting edge, featuring text around an anatomical illustration of an écorché figure
A painted scene on wood where a man in red ecclesiastical dress pulls away from an animated skeleton who reaches for his hat
A small green lizard climbing down the stand for the head in the previous photo
Wax anatomical models of a forearm and a head, on ebonised black stands
An illustration of a women with a scab on her lower lip and an ulcerated forehead
An advert for an event entitled ‘dissected from history’
A skull without mandible set in a wall of long bones. Behind, further layers of very neatly stackef skulls and bones can be seen
A small round table whose surface is inlaid in many different colours. There is a foot whose cut surface has a silver cover in the centre and an ear at each of the cardinal points
A painted skull sat atop a pile of other bones.
A figure of Jesus being crucified - probably made of wax - with the chest panel opened to reveal ribs and intestines underneath.
A wax model of the head of an elderly man with the skin peeled back to reveal the skull
A child of about 4 in a blue pinafore with a short ruffled sleeve white blouse. She has blonde curls and is standing on a stage with a microphone
A male skull with mandible sits in the middle of stacked long bones. The teeth are missing, lost post mortem.
A skeleton wearing elaborate clothing and gemstones pictured from mid thigh upwards holding a sword in his right hand and a sort of golden plume thing in his left. He is standing in an arched case with baroque floral wallpaper and gold trim.
Six plaster models of eyes, each showing a different pathology, set into a plaster back drop which is made to look like white drapery.
A wax model of an enlarged heart with the front portion removed to show the interior anatomy
The head and shoulders of a marble skeleton with marble drapery behind.
The head and shoulders of a marble skeleton with marble drapery behind.
À stylised illustration of a skeleton with a golden crown and sceptre with scroll curling from it. The background is black with a gold frame
An ossuary scene with skulls on a shelf before neatly stacked long bones which form an arch
A large head (left hand side) showing the anatomical structures just below the skin. The eye is closed and the colours are vibrant.
An oversized model of a molar tooth cut in half with fearsome looking snakes eating one person and cooling around another inside
A jaunty bronze skull (no mandible) sitting atop crossed bronze bones on a low stone pillar.