Martin Firrell is a British contemporary artist known for public artworks on billboards around the world. He uses the poster form to campaign for greater social equality. His bold and simple works address LGBTQIA+ equality, the women’s movement, feminism and gender equality; and universal human rights. The artist's aim is 'to make the world more humane'. Firrell's billboards often resemble advertising because he hijacks advertising's techniques to achieve artistic-activist ends. This co-opting of commercial techniques and his wholesale colonisation of advertising’s oldest and boldest medium - the billboard - makes Firrell one of the most apposite and significant artists of the 21st Century. ~ Dr Robert Shelton.

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is a series of four public art posters celebrating the presence and power of butch lesbians - dykes - in British society.

The exact origin of the word is uncertain. Like the once derogatory term , has been reclaimed by the LGBTQIA+ community.


During Lesbian Visibility Week '23, The Wind Sisters, a group of butch motorcyclists, linked arms to form a human barrier between extremists and LGBTQIA+ families, allowing a drag story hour to proceed safely as advertised.

Dyke Power real.

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Dyke identity is a hugely important part of LGBTQIA+ culture. The term itself is a powerful assertion of political power and visibility. Dyke identity has its own unique codes and identifiers.


There is, quite literally, nothing like a dyke.

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