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.  She works primarily in the form of visual essays and publications to bring visibility to concealed and underrepresented locations, knowledges and events. Her projects stem from on-site research in current and former military-colonial sites in Cyprus, interrogating its active use as a central node for surveillance and US-UK military operations from a visual perspective. 

In an ongoing stream of her practice, she creates contributions to the earth-body art genre pioneered by Ana Mendieta, using ritualistically gathered weeds and other earth-bound matter. She frequently collaborates with other queer, feminist and migrant-witch artists and researchers through facilitating workshops and alternative pedagogical events, and curating collaborative publications.

Photography by Lujain Tamer Mansour


She regularly provides individual and collective readings with her tarot deck, The Earth Mother Magic Tarot, in intimate gatherings amongst women and queers and at events across London. You can find out more about her tarot practice and book a reading from her with the deck she herself designed here.

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Selected Group Exhibitions
Meet the Deck, Goldsmiths, University of London, June 2026 (forthcoming)
New Heretics, House of Annetta, London, May 2026 (forthcoming)
They Call Me Witch by Which Witch Collective, Crypt Gallery, London, November 2025

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

The A to Zine Show, Queercircle, London, 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

Residencies Endrosia Project Space, Nicosia  (forthcoming 2026)
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


Selected Interviews & Features
Featured at Offprint with the West Asian and North African Women’s Art Library, Tate Modern, May 2025

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

Selected PublicationsVisual essay contribution to Journal of Illustration: Sharing Histories to Draw Out Futures (forthcoming 2026)

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


Selected WorkshopsOpen Community Press, assistant facilitator, Camberwell Space, April 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


Selected EventsOf the Passing Winds - and Other Such Future Cyprus Souvenirs - zine launch at 117 Green Lanes,  April 2026
Akrotiri & Dhekelia - illustrated teach-in at Camberwell College of Arts Degree Show, June 2025

Hecate - tarot reading at Tribe Incorporated, Twilight Contemporary, May 2025

Talking Textures - tarot reading at Ugly Duck, April 2024

EducationWoodcut printmaking intensive at Subterráneos, Oaxaca, August 2025

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

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

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