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 archival and on-site research into current and former military-colonial sites in Cyprus, drawing attention to surveillance infrastructures, reading landscapes and using serendipity as a method of enquiry.
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 artists and researchers by curating collaborative publications and co-facilitating workshops and alternative pedagogical events.
She regularly provides readings with her tarot deck, The Earth Mother Magic Tarot, within queer and feminist communities in London and Cyprus. She prints her tarot decks at Slow + Dirty Press, the feminist community press at House of Annetta. You can find out more about her tarot practice and book a reading from her with the deck she herself designed here.
CV
New Heretics, House of Annetta, London, May 2026
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
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
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
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
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
Akrotiri & Dhekelia - illustrated teach-in at Camberwell College of Arts Degree Show, June 2025
Hecate - tarot reading at Tribe Incorporated, Twilight Contemporary, May 2025
Moodring - tarot reading at Matchstick Piehouse, October 2023
Talking Textures - tarot reading at Ugly Duck, April 2024
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
Portfolio
Of the Passing Winds - & Other Such Future Cyprus Souvenirs: A Zine on the SBAs in Cyprus
An open access resource communicating information and perspectives about Akrotiri and Dhekelia, the British Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus, from artists, academics, activists and people with personal relationships to the SBAs.
Editor: Florenza Deniz Incirli
Illustrator: Ayshe-Mira Yashin
Contributors: Rizo Kolektif, Decolonial Cypriot, Misheli, Rhodou, Rhomaios, Arçın Çelikesmer, Emily Demetriou, Pavlina Polyviou
Printed at House of Annetta with Slow + Dirty Press
DOWNLOAD OPEN-ACCESS PDF HERE
Some spreads from the zine (download open access PDF to see in full)
DONATION LINK
Note: this is an open access digital file, but if you have the capacity to pay, we encourage a small donation via paypal with the reference: of the passing winds.
Online Statement:
All funds beyond the covering of printing costs will go towards solidarity fundraising initiatives in regions directly targeted by the violence perpetrated from the SBAs in Cyprus. 50 zines from the initial print run of 140 were distributed amongst contributors.
Financial Breakdown:
Initial print run was covered by contributors and £100 from Grrrl Zine funding that was set aside during the residency.
The price of the zine is currently £10. It is also available as a digital file, open access.
ALL PROFITS WILL BE DONATED.
Print Run £1
Paper: £10.99 (1000 sheets from a wholesale order from Paperstone)
Printing cost: £96 (breakdown below:)
Usage cost: £5
Masters: 14 masters x £2 per master = £28
Copies: 140 copies per master > £4.5 per master (£1.5 per 50 copies = £1.5 x 3) > £4.5 x 14 = £63
Total cost for first print run = £10.99 + £96 = £106.99 (= £0.76 per zine)
£773.05 (approx.) was raised from the first print run (as of 30 June 2026).
£100 was be set aside from the sales of the first print run to cover a second run.
42 zines were sold at the zine launch and fundraiser event at 117 Green Lanes in April 2026.
10 zines from the first print run are stocked with Books Peckham (payment to be received by us after they have been sold).
5 zines from the first print run are stocked with the Feminist Library (payment made upfront).
5 zines from the first print run are stocked with Housmans Bookshop (payment made upfront with 20% commission taken).
7 zines were sold at the New Heretics exhibition at House of Annetta, where the zine was exhibited in May 2026.
2 zines were sold at Hafieh, a Lebanon and Palestine fundraiser event in London in May 2026.
4 zines were sold at the Pagemasters Zine Fair at Art Hub Studio in May 2026.
8 zines were sold at the WANAWAL book stall at Offprint and Peckham24 in May 2026.
5 zines were sold through personal delivery and sale at 117 Green Lanes after the initial zine launch fundraiser event.
Funds of £653.05 from the first print run were donated to Barzakh Bookshop, who are currently providing food and resources to displaced people in Lebanon.
Funds of £20 from the first print run were donated to Hafieh, an event fundraising for three Lebanon and Palestine initiatives: Asafeer Falastin, Nation Station and Barzakh Bookshop.
Any funds raised from additional donations for the digital file download will be donated to Barzakh Bookshop in addition.
Donations to Barzakh are made through coordination with the Operations Manager.
This online statement will be updated regularly as and when funds raised from zine sales are donated.
On 23 April 2026, £423.05 was donated to Barzakh (the proceeds from 42 zines sold at the zine launch event at 117 Green Lanes on 21 April 2026).
On 30 June 2026, £230 was donated to Barzakh (the proceeds of the zines sold at the Feminist Library, Housmans Bookshop, and at various events and publiocation fairs in April - June 2026)
£100 is currently set aside to fund the second print run (which will take place in July 2026).
Print Run £2
Paper: £14.95 (1000 sheets purchased from Newmans Stationary)
Printing cost: £75 (breakdown below:)
Usage cost: £5
Masters: 14 masters x £2 per master = £28
Copies: 60 copies per master > £3 per master (£1.5 per 50 copies = £1.5 x 2) > £3 x 14 = £42
Total cost for first print run = £14.95 + £75 = £89.95 (= £1.50 per zine)
5 zines from the second print run are stocked with the Feminist Library.
(Updates TBA on zines stocked in Cyprus from the second print run.)