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 terrains through land-based rituals, working with the earth’s matter to create experimental ecological works which culminate in illustrative contributions to the Earth-Body Art genre pioneered by Ana Mendieta. Informed by a recent residency at Grrrl Zine Fair, she has contributed to, illustrated and curated publications with themes spanning from feminist retellings of folktales from the SWANA region to military base abolition.
She regularly provides 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). Recent exhibitions include They Call Me Witch at The Crypt Gallery (London, 2025), Burned House Horizon at Mimosa House, (London, 2025), Manifestations: Views of the Otherworldly in Painting and Drawing at NiMac (Nicosia, 2024) and Do You Buy This? at Ugly Duck (London, 2023).
CV
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
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
Açık Büfe (Teaspoon Projects), co-facilitator with Dil Collective and Pedro Resendez, 8 Vine Yard - March 2025
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
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 Radical Jewish Calendar 5786, September 2025
Contribution to Third Shelf Journal, Issue 2: Fluids, September 2024
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Distinction, Camberwell College of Arts, 2021 - 2022
Portfolio
These works were conceptualised through responding to the theme of Burned House Horizon by imagining the self as a ‘future ancestor’, and creating speculative archaeological artefacts from this position. To find out more about Burned House Horizon, read Giulia Casalini’s article for Performing Borders here.
Menstrual blood, pressed leaves, interfacing fabric, cotton and tissue paper on lightbox
December - January 2025
4 x 490mm x 680mm
*Mendieta, 1981
As part of Burned House Horizon, I co-facilitated a workshop series at Mimosa House entitled Queer Goddexes & Speculative Scripts with Byuka aka Fortune Tailed Beast, for queer and migrant communities including The Outside Project and United Queerdom. Byuka’s portion of the workshop involved guiding participants to explore the non-binary divine through sensorial mapping to connect to the queer body as earth, and crafting sigils as intentional archaeological remains.
My portion of the workshop invited participants to create queer earth-body deities inspired by our own queer ancestral stories and the non-binary divine, looking at how queer artists have used the goddex archetype to explore the political and/or mythological self. I facilitated collective making sessions where participants created visual representations of “the body as earth” by collaging with organic materials including dried plants and natural pigments (homemade by me and my co-facilitator Byuka).