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.
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) and Manifestations: Views of the Otherworldly in Painting and Drawing at NiMac (Nicosia, 2024).
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
Risograph printed cards, from fine-liner illustrations
June - October 2022
78 x 70mm x 115mm
Inkjet printed zine, kettle-stitch bound
September - October 2022
56 pages, 130mm x 180mm
I have participated as a tarot reader in events including Moodring, a queer healing party (2023), Talking Textures, an exhibition and event celebrating SWANA hair and culture (2024) and Hecate, a community event celebrating trans-femininity by Tribe Incorporated (2025).