Exhibitions
As well as running Poem Atlas, Astra has curated several visual poetry exhibitions across the UK. She won the Pebeo Mixed Media Art Prize in 2016, and her visual work has been showcased at exhibitions and pop-up events in the UK and internationally, including the National Poetry Library, Christie's London and Technohoros Gallery. Astra has recently been experimenting with bio-resin and text.
Solo Exhibitions
2021, Regrowth and Resistance, Kew Gardens, London
2021, Translucency, Art Park Gallery Rhodes, GR
Group Exhibitions
2022, Future Cities, National Poetry Library, London
2022, The Sea Is Always Far, Technohoros Gallery, Athens, GR
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, Bristol
2020, Poetry Illustrated: a Teenagers View, Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton
2020, Temporary Spaces, The Poetry Café, London
2020, Double Six, Kingston Museum, Kingston
2019, Blockplay, Poetry Café, London
2019, The Yellow Book Exhibition, Westminster Reference Library, London
2019, Behind the mask, Another mask, October Gallery, London
2019, Groving: Acts of Resistance, Street Exhibition in Bury St Edmunds
2019, The Poet's Brut Group Exhibition, Poetry Cafe, London
2019, Poetography Exhibition, Museum of Futures, London
2019, Love Tokens and Bad Pennies Exhibition at #unsettledgallery, London
2018, Ampersand poetry & art evening, 504 Arch, London
2018, Instagram Poetry Exhibition, National Poetry Library (Southbank Centre), London
2018, Scribbling & Scrawling Exhibition, Museum of Futures, London
2016, Pébéo Art Exhibition, A&D Gallery, London
2014, Pro Arté International Group Exhibition, The Studio, Guildford
2013, Group Student Design Show, Ivy Arts Centre, Guildford
2013, Pro Arté International Group Exhibition, The Studio, Guildford
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
Examples of work from The Poet's Brut exhibition at the Poetry Cafe in 2019.
Excerpt from my commission in response to Janice Kerbel's artwork at the National Poetry Library in 2022
'no hope' at the world's first Instagram Poetry Exhibition at the National Poetry Library in 2018
