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.
She regularly provides individual and collective readings with her tarot deck, The Earth Mother Magic Tarot, in intimate gatherings amongst women and queer people 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.
CV
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
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.
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)
£900 (approx.) will be raised from the first print run.
£100 will be set aside from the sales of the first print run to cover a second run.
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).
Funds of £800 from the first print run will be going towards Barzakh Bookshop, who are currently providing food and resources to displaced people in Lebanon.
Any funds raised from additional donations for the digital file download will be donated to Barzakh Bookshop in addition.
Donations to Barzakh are made in chunks of £200, through coordination with the Operations Manager.
This online statement will be updated regularly as and when funds raised from zine sales are donated.