b.1989
Palesa Monareng
Hi, I’m Palesa Monareng, a London-based Illustrator & visual systems partner - previously working as T.S Abe
My personal practice explores my relationship with the webs emergent phenomena - from it’s vice grip on the minds eye, to homogenised beauty ideals & an oft adversarial relationship with my online ‘id’.
While my public-facing career has been defined by an ability to humanize the interface, delivering visual systems for The New York Times, Wealthsimple and Amazon, my internal engine - the backdoor to every professional success - has been my 20-year longitudinal self-portrait project. It’s my private R&D lab. By using my own likeness as the constant variable, I’ve explored how human identity persists, fractures, and evolves as it passes through the filters of two decades of digital transformation. The project is now a developing manuscript, represented by Janklow & Nesbit
Reach: A global digital footprint exceeding 380 million views on GIPHY, 500k+ views on Behance and a 100k+ community on Instagram
When not drawing you can find me hiking with my vizsla, Herzog, updating my LETTERBOXD and snacking on Fuet. If you have a project in mind, I’d love to hear from you.
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palesa@palesamonareng.com
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