About the artist
David Firth is a British artist, animator and musician based in Leeds, England, best known as the creator of the surreal Flash animation series Salad Fingers. Since the early 2000s he has built a distinctive body of independent, often unsettling animated work, including characters and series such as Jerry Jackson, Burnt Face Man and Spoilsbury Toastboy, establishing himself as one of the defining voices of early internet animation.
Alongside his visual work, Firth is also active as a musician, composing and performing original music that frequently accompanies or extends the tone of his animated projects. His musical output tends to mirror the eerie, theatrical and darkly comic sensibility found in his animation, blending pop songwriting with a distinctly idiosyncratic, homemade aesthetic.
His songs, including pieces like «Masquerade / Why So Silent» and «Notes / Prima Donna», reflect a narrative, almost theatrical approach to songwriting that connects to his broader multimedia projects. Firth's combined body of work across animation and music has earned him a dedicated cult following that values his unpolished, deeply personal and often unsettling creative voice.