‘We’re in a post-truth apocalypse’: meet Foka Wolf, Birmingham’s billboard prankster | street-art
What started, in 2018, as “a bit of a wind-up” quickly turned into a political act. Approaching 30 and after a string of self-described “menial” jobs post-art school (manual laborer, chalkboard writer and a brief two-week stint as a graphic designer), Birmingham-based foka wolf was restless. I have stuck up to satirical advertisement that read, “Do you drive a 4x4, Jeep or Range Rover in the city? You could be entitled to FREE penis enlargement therapy on the NHS” and received several serious inquiries.“People will believe anything if it's packaged and polished in a certain way. That really worries me,” says the artist, whose name is an apparent play on Focke-Wulf, the German manufacturer of second world war fighter planes familiar to generations of model aircraft builders and who u...