Our Home Grown commissioned Bus Stop artists Alex Billingham and Lexi Strauss have landed in the Jewellery Quarter! You will find them at the following locations:
Alex, Digital Phantoms: Directly opposite the Tesco 24 hour fuel garage on Icknield Street B187BH
Lexi, Detrivore: Adjacent to Jewel of Vape B18 6NN
Alex Billingham’s Digitial Phantoms poses the question: What happens to Pokemon when the digital spaces they occupy get rebuilt physically? Do they go on as ghosts? Will your living room have a digital shark sticking out of it?
Do they reach backwards through time? Are the ghosts we know just digital marketing tools of the future?
Meanwhile Lexi Strauss’ Detrivore has the artist appear as a giant worm on an allotment holding a paintbrush and pallet stood in front of an easel. In the background two gardeners joust with a spade and fork, respectively.
Commonly found in compost-rich environments, these vital, highly sensitive detritivores/coprophages provide balance, by ingesting and processing a wide variety of detritus into something rich and fertile, whilst themselves also serving as food for many consumers within the ecosystems... (for your cultural benefit).
These gorgeous full size bus stop poster prints acted as a direction to Stryx Cafe and Gallery in the Jewellery Quarter as well as providing a scannable QR code to their online art for sale at stryxshop.co.uk