Ayshe-Mira Yashin
Email: ayshemira@gmail.com
Instagram: @ayshemira
Etsy: @theillustrationwitch
Ayshe-Mira Yashin (b.2003) is an illustrator and visual artist based in London. Her practice intertwines matriarchal storytelling with land-based rituals, taking form in narrative miniature-style prints, hand-bound books and illustrative contributions to the Earth-Body Art genre pioneered by Ana Mendieta.
She regularly provides readings with her handmade tarot deck, The Earth Mother Magic Tarot, within queer and feminist communities.
She regularly provides readings with her handmade tarot deck, The Earth Mother Magic Tarot, within queer and feminist communities.
CV
Burned House Horizon, Mimosa House, London, January - February 2025
Manifestations: Views of the Otherworldy in Painting & Drawing, NiMac, Nicosia, March - July 2024
Do You Buy This?, Ugly Duck, London, August 2023
The A to Zine Show, Queercircle, London, January 2023
The Directory, Koop Projects, Brighton, January 2023
Tongue in Trees: Ecocriticism and Art by the Courtauldian, photobookcafe, London, December 2022
They/Them/Their: Naturally Not Binary, IMT Gallery, London, August 2022
Protest, Fronteer Art Gallery, Sheffield, September 2021
Burned House Horizon Artist Residency, Bidston Observatory and Artistic Research Centre, October 2024
NFTS BFI Film Academy Craft Skills Residential, Beaconsfield Studios, September 2021
NFTS BFI Film Academy Screenwriting Residential, Beaconsfield Studios, December 2019
Queer Goddexes & Speculative Scripts, Co-facilitation with Byuka aka Fortune Tailed Beast, Mimosa House, January - February 2025
Earth Mother Magic Tarot Ritual-Workshop, Co-facilitation with Byuka aka Fortune Tailed Beast, Ugly Duck, August 2023
Zine-Making Workshop Facilitation for Grrrl Zine Fair, The Feminist Library, June 2022
Intro to Bookbinding, Artist Books and Zines, Independent Facilitator for Long Con Mag, Online, March 2022
Zine-Making and Bookbinding Workshop Facilitation for Grrrl Zine Fair, Newington Green Meeting House, March 2022
Climate Justice Themed Zine-Making Workshop Assistant Facilitation for Grrrl Zine Fair, Anglia Ruskin Chelmsford, September 2021
Interviewed Artist in The Pamela Colman Smith Tarot Deck by Laura Connell - British Art in Motion, December 2023
Featured Tarot Artist in Witchology Magazine: The Balance Issue - Witchology, March 2023
Featured in Ten Queer Feminist Zines to Watch Out For at Grrrl Zine Fair - Dazed, March 2022
Contribution to Third Shelf Journal, Issue 2: Fluids, September 2024
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Distinction, Camberwell College of Arts, 2021 - 2022
Portfolio
The viewer is invited to explore the SBAs through a character who’s gaze positions the British inhabitants of these territories as more visible subjects, subverting their position as perpetrators of surveillence who are themselves rarely “seen” (by people in mainland England). This gaze challenges the constructed invisibility of the military-colonial infastructures of the SBAs, some of which were intentionally documented through the practice of illustration due to the prohibition of other forms of “recording”.
Offset lithography from hand-drawings
April - May 2025
4 x 820mm x 340mm