Palesa Monareng
I’m Palesa Monareng, a London-based Illustrator, 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 illustration & animation for The New York Times, Wealthsimple and Amazon, my internal engine has been my 20-year longitudinal self-portrait project. With my own likeness as the constant variable, I’ve explored how human identity evolves as it passes through the filters of two decades of digital life. The project is now a developing manuscript, represented by Janklow & Nesbit
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.
palesa@palesamonareng.com
Client List
Selected Press
CREATIVEBOOM, INSTAGRAM, VICE, VISI, DESIGNCOLLECTOR
work with me
palesa@palesamonareng.com
Tiffany & Co.
Commissions
Portraits & animation for editorial, publishing and brand work. Clients include the New York Times, Nike, Netflix, Tiffany & Co. and Amazon.
Brand Activations
Live drawing experiences for fashion, beauty, luxury and cultural events.
Intimate experiences that invite guests to participate, from guided self-portrait sessions to live illustration and bespoke drawing activations.
self portrait study
Talks
On drawing by hand in a synthetic visual culture and what twenty years of self-portraiture has taught me about who we become online. Let me yap at your conference, university, or company team.