Illustration: Cool little characters from Alessandra Genualdo

Date
20 November 2013

Italian-born London-based illustrator Alessandra Genualdo creates characters and scenes with just the right amount of weird to haul us over, googly eyed and inquisitive as we are. Her work for for small publications and exhibitions combines gouache with collage to create a strangely surreal mixture of textures and solid blocks of colour. As a result, her images transcend their prescribed two-dimensionality; the jumpers look itchy, the books wordy and the hairdos substantial, which only goes to prove my point – It might well be weird, but it’s right up our street.

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Alessandra Genualdo: 100 Years Gallery

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Alessandra Genualdo: 100 Years Gallery

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Alessandra Genualdo: Friends and Family

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Alessandra Genualdo: Friends and Family

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Alessandra Genualdo: Friends and Family

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Alessandra Genualdo: Illustration

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Alessandra Genualdo: Il Signor Noto

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Alessandra Genualdo: Dom Edity Stein

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Alessandra Genualdo: Dom Edity Stein

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Alessandra Genualdo: Dom Edity Stein

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Maisie Skidmore

Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.

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