Martin Firrell is a contemporary British artist known for public artworks on billboards around the world. He uses the poster form to campaign for greater social equality, aiming ‘to make the world more humane’. For 30 years he has gently and consistently sought to humanise the times we live in, using bold and simple graphics to address LGBT+ equality, the women’s movement, feminism and gender equality; and universal human rights. Firrell has created more works expressly for the billboard medium than any other living artist. This wholesale adoption of advertising’s oldest and boldest format represents a seizmic shift in Fine Art’s centre of gravity – away from the gallery and into the street – which makes Firrell one of the most apposite practitioners for the media-driven, open-access 21st Century.

Martin Firrell is Publishing Director of the Cambridge Queer Press, global publishers of internationally important queer voices. Cambridge Queer Press publishes LGBT+, feminist and progressive fiction & non-fiction on the basis that Queer writing is for everyone and LGBT+ and feminist voices can enrich all lives. The Cambridge Queer Press is based in the beautiful University City of Cambridge, England, and distributed globally by Ingram, the world’s largest book distributor.