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 that engage with politically charged sites, 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, photobookcafe, London, December 2022
They/Them/Their: Naturally Not Binary, IMT Gallery, London, August 2022
Protest, Fronteer Art Gallery, Sheffield, September 2021
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 (delivered across 3 sessions, including for United Queerdom and The Outside Project, as part of Burned House Horizon), January - February 2025
Earth Mother Magic Tarot Ritual-Workshop, Co-facilitation with Byuka aka Fortune Tailed Beast, Ugly Duck (as part of Lunarr Playgroundz), August 2023
Zine-Making Workshop Facilitation for Grrrl Zine Fair, The Feminist Library (as part of A Queer Zine Fair), June 2022
Intro to Bookbinding, Artist Books and Zines, Independent Facilitator, Online (delivered across 3 weeks for Long Con Magazine), March 2022
Zine-Making and Bookbinding Workshop Facilitation for Grrrl Zine Fair, Newington Green Meeting House (delivered for Xenia as part of Grrrl Zine Fair), March 2022
Climate Justice Themed Zine-Making Workshop Assistant Facilitation for Grrrl Zine Fair, Anglia Ruskin Chelmsford (as part of British Science Festival Family Day), September 2021
Featured in There’s no border in the horizon: Burned House Horizon’s queer-trans-feminist time travelling and border crossings by Giulia Casalini - Performing Borders, March 2025
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
Contribution to Qafiyah Review, Issue 2: Sumac, March 2024
Contribution to Dyke House Press, Issue 3: Dyke Rage, December 2023
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).