Yang-En Hume
Olivia Parson Award
2026/27
Yang-En Hume is an Australian artist with Singaporean heritage, based in London. She draws on her experiences of growing up between cultures and becoming a mother to create patchwork quilts, unstretched paintings, and sculptures that explore cultural hybridity. Her work attends to histories that are precious, fragile, or often overlooked: lived experiences of migration and mixed-race identity, practices of mothering, her grandmother’s textile work, and the Dutch and British colonial spice trades in Southeast Asia. These histories are carried in her materials: she works with fragments of her clothing, family photographic archives, Burmese teak and bronze.
Hume holds an MFA with distinction from the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, where she received the Betty Malcolm Prize, the Sarabande Emerging Artist Fund and the Reid Trust Grant. She graduated with First Class Honours from the National Art School in Sydney, where she was awarded a residency at La Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and funding from the Australia Council for the Arts and the Ian Potter Cultural Trust. Hume has received A-N and CuratorSpace bursaries and won the Artist Spotlight Award from the Small Works Art Gallery. She has been shortlisted for the New Emergence Art Prize and longlisted for the Ivan Juritz and Women in Art Prizes. She undertook the No Break in Summer Residency at Mandy Zhang Art, and her work has been shown in group exhibitions at the Gerald Moore Gallery, Small Works Art Gallery, Somers Gallery, the Nunnery Gallery and the Migration Museum.
Olivia Parson Award
The Olivia Parson Award was established in memory of Olivia Parson by her family, friends and colleagues, with founding support from Kitt and YEP (You & Everyone in Property). Delivered by Acme, this award supports an early career fine artist at a pivotal moment in their development, providing the time, space and resources needed to establish a professional studio practice and build the foundations for a sustainable career.