Foka Wolf

Foka Wolf is an anonymous British artist based in Birmingham, known for thei (Foka Wolf has been referred to in news reports as a man and woman; they stated in 2018 that they prefer they/them pronouns.)

Career and works Foka Wolf went to art school, and followed this with jobs as a manual labourer and chalkboard writer. They additionally spent two weeks working as a graphic designer.

Foka Wolf's work began as handwritten "jibberish" adverts that they wrote on a roll of stickers when they were "severely hungover" These first stickers included phrases such as "elephant tusks for sale", "I will pay for thumbs" and "brain surgery, over 20 years’ experience, cool prices, clean knives". From this point, their work developed to involve multi-colured pens and then to large black and white printed posters designed digitally. They have said that they received death threats for this work due to people taking religious offence. they placed a cardboard box outside Digbeth police station which read "Police robot unit. Low cost. No empathy. Conscience free. Totally safe." with fake adverts for "Europe's biggest jumble sale" on boards around the site. Another of their works, a poster on an abandoned shop, read "Are you Brexit ready? Bunkers from £9,000. Flame-throwers. Child traps!"

They have sent out free PDF files that can be downloaded, some of which have been pasted onto Trump Tower in New York City;

In January 2022, they opened a faux bargain store installation in Dudley, which included products such as "Lairy Little Prick", a parody of Fairy liquid. , they sold prints of their work on their website Megacorp and their newsletter had over 6,000 subscribers.

In February 2025, Foka Wolf placed stickers on a sign at a former Tesla showroom in Birmingham which has closed down the previous year, reading "Now Powered with 100% Small Dick Energy". In an interview, they called Elon Musk an "internet troll" with a "weird fascination" with the city.

Artistic process Describing their work as "misinformation" and "IRL trolling", they have listed influences including artist David Shrigley, Viz magazine, and satirical TV show Brass Eye, and compared their aesthetic to that of zines.

Humour is an important part of their work; they intend to "make them laugh and then make them think about their actions afterwards". In 2018, they said that they tried "not to have a political leaning... because we live in a time where it's a little bit clouded and no-one known what is really going on", though in 2022 said that their work had quickly become more political and more socially conscious. They are unconcerned that their works could be interpreted as genuine; they said in 2022 "We’re in a post-truth apocalypse," and that they were "only throwing a lighter into a house fire." They do not call themself a "proper activist", and in 2022 said they did not go to protests. A logo for the fictional company Megacorp and its motto "Profit before People" is a recurring motif in their work, with Foka Wolf's alternate pseudonym "Clive Babbington" as its fictional CEO.

Foka Wolf often takes little consideration when finding images online to work on, and then works on the images digitally. They then take significant consideration when choosing the placement of the works on specific billboards. They put them onto the billboards illegally, though usually in the daytime around 10:30 am, and has said they use a hi-vis jacket to blend in, usually taking around 30 seconds to paste the works. In 2018, the Foka Wolf they distributed the posters alongside five other anonymous people who were "mostly interns".