Martin Firrell
British, born Paris France. 1963
Martin Firrell is a French public artist who stimulates debate in public space to promote positive social change. He uses language to engage directly with the public with the aim of making the world more humane. His work has been summarised as 'art as debate'.
He is artist in residence with leading Out of Home media company
Clear Channel UK.
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Union City
Digital billboards - UK - July to August 2019
A Moral Idea
(with Clare Short)
(with Clare Short)
2019
Immoral Flaws
2019
All Members of Society
2019
Secure Employment
2019
Equality for Women
2019
Safety at Work
2019
Progress
2019
Cooperative Society
2019
Protest Is Liberty's Ally
2019
Power and Gender (Women)
Digital billboards - UK - Jan to Mar 2019
Ugly Sweaty Men
(with Inga Beale)
(with Inga Beale)
2019
When Men Hold Power
(with Annie Rickard)
(with Annie Rickard)
2019
Distorted Power
(with Clare Short)
(with Clare Short)
2019
The Simple Idea
(with Alex Mahon)
(with Alex Mahon)
2019
Women Make Up Half the Population
(with Liv Garfield)
(with Liv Garfield)
2019
All Power is Temporary
2019
Power and Gender (Men)
Digital billboards - UK - Jan to Mar 2019
All Men Are Dangerous
2019
It's Easy to Be Angry
2019
The Great Heroes
2019
A Good Man
(with Justin Cochrane)
(with Justin Cochrane)
2019
Men Are Really Great
2019
Burt Reynolds
2019
Remember 1967
Digital billboards - UK - 27 July 2017
Embrace Lesbianism
2017
Overturn the Ideology
2017
Sexual Revolutionaries
2017
Renounce the Monster
2017
Homosexuals and Women
2017
Society Is still Dominated
2017
Great Fire of London
Projection - St Paul's Cathedral UK - 1 to 4 Sept 2016
Fires Ancient (Yellow)
2016
Fires Ancient (Blue)
2016
Fires Ancient (White)
2016
Great Fire of London
Projection - National Theatre UK - 1 to 4 Sept 2016
This Is Slavery
2016
Fascism Fails in Britain
2016
Hanging Is Abolished
2016
Clause 28 Demonises
2016
Lesbians Are Out!
2016
Anti War Messages
2016
All Identity Is Constructed
Digital billboards - UK - 1 to 28 August 2016
I Am an Albino
2016
I Definitely Do Feel Like a Free Person
2016
I'm Not Who Everyone Thinks I Am
2016
It Ends Here
Installation - London UK - 10 to 12 July 2014
Abuse Begets Abuse
2014
Paranoia Begets Paranoia
2014
Idiocy Walks With Wisdom
2014
Brutality Begets Brutality
2014
Brutality begets Brutality
(detail)
(detail)
2014
Resistence Is Grace
2014
I Want to Live in a City Where
Projection - National Gallery UK - 5 to 6 July 2006
No One Is Sent to War
2006
Violence Never Works
2006
No One Has to Be Afraid of Standing Out
2006
Hunty City
Video - Shoreditch Town Hall London UK - 1 to 12 Mar 2017
Going to the Ranch
2016
Fish & Chips
2016
Welcome to the Gayborhood
2016
Complete Hero
Projection - Guards' Chapel London UK - 2009
The Great Heroes Have Always Wept
2009
The Hero We've Been Sold
2009
Quentin Crisp Said
2009
Women Are Much More Honourable
2009
I Can't Bear the Sight
2009
We Need a Great Civic Hero
2009
Power Is Always Temporary
Projection - Royal Opera House UK - 2007
Surrounded by Army
2007
You Can't Shower
2007
How Not to Die Tomorrow
2007
All Men Are Dangerous
Projection - Tate Britain London - 2006
Think
2006
Security Is No Replacement
2006
Untitled
2006
The One Irreducible Truth
Digital billboards - London UK - 2005
Avec Excoffon
Fly-posting - Marseille France - 2010
To Understand a Thing Fully
2010
To Understand a Thing Fully
2010
To Understand a Thing Fully (Artwork)
2010
The Question Mark Inside
Projection - St Paul's Cathedral London UK - 2008
Sun (Arabic)
2008
I Don't Understand
2008
Organised Religion Is Hard to Follow
2008
I Don't Think This Is What God Intended
2008
Breasts
2008
Every Human Life Is Owed to a Woman
2008
Love
2008
Sex
2008
Wisdom (Hindi)
2008