About:

Hatiye is a disabled illustrator and comic artist from Istanbul. She likes to draw birds, flowers, and ordinary moments. She is interested in accessible illustration, comics, and graphic medicine. Her work has been exhibited and published internationally, including in Portugal, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Ireland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Serbia, the Czech Republic, South Korea, the USA, and the UK. More recently, she has been running the Accessible Lines project, which brings together illustrators from the UK and Turkey to make their illustrations accessible for blind and low-vision audiences.