Yu Mei Huang is a Taiwanese-born, London-based textile artist and designer whose practice bridges traditional knitting craft and contemporary textile art.
Rooted in her East Asian heritage and informed by fieldwork with artisans across Asia, she works primarily with origin sourced fibres such as papaya softened silk, hand spun hemp, and Mongolian cashmere. Treating yarn as both medium and memory, Huang’s sculptural installations explore tactility, displacement, and cultural continuity, examining how material and making connect bodies, identities, and shared space.
Alongside her artistic practice, Huang collaborates with fashion houses on handmade knit pieces that combine high-quality materials with ethical production. She often creates a visual rhythm between softness and tensile strength, celebrating the labour and intimacy of handcraft.
A graduate of the Royal College of Art, her work has been featured in British Vogue, Vogue Italia, and Knitting Industry Creative, and exhibited at the TextielMuseum (NL), Contemporary Textile Art Gina Morandini (IT), ECC Architecture Biennale (IT), and in galleries across the UK, Europe, and Asia.
