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.

CV

Selected Group Exhibitions
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

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
Residencies Grrrl Zine Fair Artist Residency, The Old Waterworks, Southend-on-Sea, July  2025

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
WorkshopsOpen Community Press, Assistant Facilitator, Camberwell Space, April 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

Interviews & Features
Interview for Parathyro Culture Supplement - Parathyro, 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

Selected PublicationsContribution to Radical Jewish Calendar 5786 

Contribution to Third Shelf Journal, Issue 2: Fluids, September 2024

EducationBA (Hons) Illustration, First Class Honours, Camberwell College of Arts, 2022 - 2025

Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Distinction, Camberwell College of Arts, 2021 - 2022         

Portfolio

Eastern Mediterranean Goddesses: PublicationA hand-bound risograph printed zine conceptualised as a matriarchal archive of the land through the bodies of fictional goddesses, who are each connected to a plant or ecological aspect of the Eastern Mediterranean region.  

Dual-colour risograph printed zine, kettle-stitch bound
September 2023
24 pages, 110m x 145mm


Eastern Mediterranean Goddesses: Original IllustrationsThe original illustrations were exhibited at NiMac at Manifestations: Views of the Otherworldly in Painting & Drawing, an exhibition which brought together the works of 35 historic and contemporary  artists from Cyprus whose work engages with ritualistic processes and explores themes around dreams, the power of symbols and legends, and the energetic frequencies of the natural and material world.

Fine-liner on paper
August 2023
24 x 104mm x 148mm