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1 Family and early life  





2 Work  



2.1  Historical parodies  





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4 Music  





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Astra Zero
Born

Dustin Nicholls


NationalityCanadian
Websitehttps://astrazero.com/

Astra Zero, born Dustin Nicholls, is a Canadian digital artist, illustrator, photographer, creative director, graphic designer and musician.

He began to use the name Astra Zero as a teenager in a punk band "and we all decided we wanted alter egos and for whatever reason".[1]

Family and early life[edit]

Nicholls grew up in Faro, Yukon. His biological father is part-First Nation, part-Scottish. He was a keen artist from a young age, painting and drawing. His grandfather, also an artist, taught him as a child. He began experimenting with digital art as a teenager, using a family scanner and printer saying, "I would collect random stuff like leaves and garbage and scan it and then layer it over old photos and then print them out and draw over them." He then moved into using Photoshop and other similar programmes.[2]

Work[edit]

Astra Zero's greatest influence is the Canadian artist, Floria Sigismondi. Other inspirations are horror, sci-fi and fantasy films, 90s cartoons plus gay and pop culture.[3]

Collections have included Infernal, Queer Horror Icons, Night Rebels, Dirty Paper, Latex and Bones, Restless Vampire, Pop Culture and Dark Vintage.

Historical parodies[edit]

He created historical parodies of:

His most popular parody is Temptation of Adam & Steve, a revamp of Adam and Eve (1628) by Peter Paul Rubens.[4]

Other work[edit]

Astra Zero has worked regularly with Alice Glass[5] and Alice Longyu Gao[6] as photo and video editor,[7] artist, photographer, animator,[8] visualiser and director.[9][10]

Astra Zero created the animation for The Pretty Reckless's 2020 music video Death by Rock and Roll with art direction by Lucas David. He created the artwork and text for the cover of REZZ + Alice Glass's single Not Enough and Saint Agnes's album Bloodsuckers. His work featured on the front cover of Bear World Magazine's 10th anniversary issue in October 2023.[11]

Publications[edit]

He has published the following books:

Music[edit]

Astra Zero has released eight singles to date:[12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Hernandez, John (2023-10-06). "Beef, Bears and Horror: The Art of Astra Zero". Bear World Magazine. Retrieved 2023-12-26.
  • ^ Hernandez, John (2023-10-06). "Beef, Bears and Horror: The Art of Astra Zero". Bear World Magazine. Retrieved 2023-12-26.
  • ^ Michael Turnbull. "Introducing... Astra Zero". loverboymagazine.com. Retrieved 2023-12-09.
  • ^ Hudson, David (2023-09-15). "People are praising this VERY revealing portrait of a Biblical 'Adam and Steve'". Queerty. Retrieved 2023-12-26.
  • ^ Allie Gregory. "Alice Glass Unleashes New Single "Lips Apart"". exclaim.ca. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
  • ^ Sadie Bell. "Alice Longyu Gao is creating a maximalist, queer sonic party world that's better than our own". altpress.com. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
  • ^ KONSTANTINOS PAPPIS. "Alice Longyu Gao Drops Video for New Song 'Kanpai'". ourculturemag.com. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
  • ^ Braden Bjella. "interview alice glass". schonmagazine.com. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
  • ^ ALTHEA LEGASPI. "Alice Glass Previews Debut Album With New 'Baby Teeth' Video". rollingstone.com. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
  • ^ Kyle Munzenrieder. "Alice Glass Takes Control of the Narrative". wmagazine.com. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
  • ^ Astra Zero (Oct 2023). "Bears, Sex and Horror". Bear World Magazine (No. 73 ed.). New York, USA: Gray Jones Media. p. 1.
  • ^ "Astra Zero". discogs.com. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
  • ^ "INDUSTRIAL/POP MUSICIAN ASTRA ZERO RELEASES NEW SINGLE 'LET IT ROLL'". brutalresonance.com. Retrieved 2023-12-27.

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