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
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
Project Editor: Deniz Betul Demirdağ
Storytellers: Leandros Farley, Florenza Deniz Incirli, Niki Kohandel, Lujain Tamer-Mansour
Dual-colour risograph printed zine, stab bound
April - May 2023
20 pages, 500mm x 250mm