Exhibitions
AS A CONTRIBUTOR
Astra won the Pebeo Mixed Media Art Prize in 2016, and her sculptural poems have been showcased at exhibitions and pop-up events in the UK and internationally in Slovenia, Poland, Greece amongst other countries. Some of the venues that have exhibited her works include National Poetry Library, Christie's London and Technohoros Gallery.
Group Exhibitions
2024, On the Sea of my Tttttongue, Gramma Epsilon, GR
2024, Words from the Wild, Royal Holloway Exhibition Space, UK
2023, Hauntings, Brewery Tap, UK
2023, Seed, Art Workers' Guild, UK
2023, Textual Porosity, Winning Gallery, UK
2023, POÈME SBJKT, Librairie Galerie Métamorphoses, FR
2023, Off-page, Many Studios, UK
2023, Räume für notizen, Galerie Wechselstrom, AT
2022, Poetry Games, National Poetry Library, UK
2022, Soundtext: Some Currents of Contemporary Poetry, Škuc Gallery, SI
2022, Water Rituals, Muzeum HERstorii Sztuki, PL
2022, Future Cities, National Poetry Library, UK
2022, The Sea Is Always Far, Technohoros Gallery, Athens, GR
2021, Regrowth and Resistance, Kew Gardens, UK
2021, Text-Isles, Art Park Gallery Rhodes, GR
2021, Timglaset Editions, Malmö Konsthall, SE
2021, Summer with the Arts, Women's Memorial (WIMSA), USA
2020, Hesterglock Press Exhibition, Neck of the Woods Cafe, UK
2020, Poetry Illustrated: a Teenagers View, Royal Marsden Hospital, UK
2020, Temporary Spaces, The Poetry Café, UK
2020, Double Six, Kingston Museum, UK
2019, Blockplay, Poetry Café, UK
2019, The Yellow Book Exhibition, Westminster Reference Library, UK
2019, Behind the mask, Another mask, October Gallery, UK
2019, Groving: Acts of Resistance, Street Exhibition in Bury St Edmunds, UK
2019, The Poet's Brut Group Exhibition, Poetry Cafe, UK
2019, Poetography Exhibition, Museum of Futures, UK
2019, Love Tokens and Bad Pennies Exhibition at #unsettledgallery, UK
2018, Ampersand poetry & art evening, 504 Arch, UK
2018, Instagram Poetry Exhibition, National Poetry Library, UK
2018, Scribbling & Scrawling Exhibition, Museum of Futures, UK
2016, Pébéo Art Exhibition, A&D Gallery, UK
2014, Pro Arté International Group Exhibition, The Studio, UK
2013, Group Student Design Show, Ivy Arts Centre, UK
2013, Pro Arté International Group Exhibition, The Studio, UK
Online Exhibitions
2021, Photo-poetry SURFACES, at Bristol Photo Festival
2021, AWW-STRUCK at Poem Atlas website
2021, Instagram Poetry for Every Day at StAnza Festival
2021, Refraction at Poem Atlas website
2020, Future-Facing at Poem Atlas website
2020, artBLAB:Text at artBLAB website
2020, Escapisms at Poem Atlas website
2020, Trånslatiøns at Mellom Press
2020, Islet Zone at Poem Atlas website
AS A CURATOR
The curation of visual poetry exhibitions is one of Astra's passions. She is the founder and curator of Poem Atlas, a poetry platform that has commissioned over 100 works of visual poetry from UK and international poets as part of a series of innovative online and physical exhibitions. Poem Atlas aims to showcase the best of visual and experimental poetry in the UK and beyond, focussing on the work of poets who explore the performative aspect of tangible poems, and merge poetry and visual art to create unique visual-textual works. In addition to this work, Astra has also assisted in the delivery of several exhibition's at The Poetry Society's Café as part of her role in the organisation since 2018.
Selected curated events
2023, Hauntings, Brewery Tap, UK
2023, Textual Porosity, Winning Gallery, UK
2021, Text-Isles, Art Park Gallery Rhodes, GR
2021, Photo-poetry SURFACES, at Bristol Photo Festival
2021, Aww-Struck at Poem Atlas website
2021, Refraction, at Poem Atlas website
2020, Future-Facing, Poem Atlas website
2020, Escapisms, Poem Atlas website
2020, Temporary Spaces, The Poetry Café, UK
2019, Blockplay, Poetry Café, UK
2019, The Yellow Book Exhibition, Westminster Reference Library, UK
