Wonky movie posters as drawn by illustrator Faye Moorhouse

Date
26 June 2015

Occasionally, when you happen across a particularly good one, looking at a series of work by an illustrator feels like glimpsing the world through their eyes for a moment, and that’s more or less how I feel looking at Faye Moorhouse’s new series Wonky Movie Poster Show. “I illustrated 20 movie posters,” she said in her email earlier this week. “They are weird and ugly and hopefully funny.” And I can testify that they are in fact all three.

From a sweet and naive watercolour of the Nymphomaniac poster in which the protagonist looks like she might have just trodden on something sharp (she hasn’t), to a fat, pink naked man lying prostrate on the cover of Supersize Me, Faye’s worldview is that perfectly un-selfaware combination of funny and odd and just generally great. If we had to look at the world through her eyes forever it might not be a bad thing.

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Faye Moorhouse: Wonky Movie Posters

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Faye Moorhouse: Wonky Movie Posters

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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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