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. Rooted in matriarchal storytelling, her practice conjures goddess archetypes from her ancestral regions, taking form in intricate linework drawings, narrative analogue prints and hand-bound books, consistently rendered in earthy-brown tones. An ongoing thread of her practice involves engaging with militarised ecologies through land-based rituals, working with the earth’s matter to create experimental works which culminate in illustrative contributions to the Earth-Body Art genre pioneered by Ana Mendieta.
Recent exhibitions include They Call Me Witch at The Crypt Gallery (London, 2025), Burned House Horizon at Mimosa House, (London, 2025) and Manifestations: Views of the Otherworldly in Painting and Drawing at NiMac (Nicosia, 2024). She has illustrated, curated and edited publications in collaboration with writers, researchers and organisers, featured in publication fairs including Offprint at Tate Modern with the West Asian and North African Women’s Art Library (London, 2025) and the 10th Anniversary Grrrl Zine Fair at The Old Waterworks (Southend-on-Sea, 2025).
Sharing earth-bound, healing visual art processes and storytelling tools through workshop facilitation is central to her practice; she has done so for communities including The Outside Project (2025), Open Community Press (2025) and Xenia (2022). She regularly provides individual and collective readings with her queer ecofeminist tarot deck, The Earth Mother Magic Tarot, at events across London including Tribe Incorporated (2025), Talking Textures (2024) and Lunarr Playgroundz (2023).
You can find out more about her tarot practice or book a reading from her with the deck she herself designed here.
CV
10th Anniversary Grrrl Zine Fair, The Old Waterworks, Southend-on-Sea, September 2025
This Home Is My Own by Clitbait, Outsiders Gallery Dalston, London, July 2025
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
Love & Strength - Through Community, CSM Window Galleries, London, February 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
Xhibit, The Koppel Project, London, June 2022
The Birdbox Gallery, Cambridge, 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
Interview for Parathyro Culture Supplement - Parathyro, March 2025
Featured tarot artist in Witchology Magazine: The Balance Issue - Witchology, March 2023
Featured in the Queer and Feminist Zine Library at Tate St Ives, May - October 2022
Featured in Ten Queer Feminist Zines to Watch Out For at Grrrl Zine Fair - Dazed, March 2022
Contribution to Azl Edition 2: Currents (forthcoming 2026)
Contribution to Radical Jewish Calendar 5786, September 2025
Contribution to Dyke House Press: Dyke Rage, December 2024
Contribution to Third Shelf Journal, Issue 2: Fluids, September 2024
Contribution to Qafiyah Review, Issue 2: Sumac, March 2024
Contribution to Myth & Lore Zine: Issue 5, October 2023
Contribution to Occult Studies Volume 2: Revolution, January 2022
Açık Büfe, co-facilitator, 8 Vine Yard - March 2025
Queer Goddexes & Speculative Scripts, co-facilitator, Mimosa House, January - February 2025
Earth Mother Magic Tarot Ritual-Workshop, co-facilitator, Ugly Duck, August 2023
Grrrl Zine Fair, facilitator, The Feminist Library, June 2022
Intro to Bookbinding, Artist Books and Zines, independent facilitator for Long Con Mag, March 2022
Grrrl Zine Fair, facilitator, Newington Green Meeting House, March 2022
Grrrl Zine Fair, assistant facilitator, Anglia Ruskin Chelmsford, September 2021
Hecate - tarot reading at Tribe Incorporated, Twilight Contemporary, May 2025
The Shadow Realm - tarot reading for Creative Catalyst Agency, September 2024
Talking Textures - tarot reading at Ugly Duck, April 2024
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Distinction, Camberwell College of Arts, 2021 - 2022
Portfolio
Risograph print from fine-liner and pencil illustration
October 2025
297mm x 420mm