Sione Tuívailala Monū (born 1993 Auckland, New Zealand) is an Australian and New Zealand interdisciplinary artist of Tongan descent notable for their use of beads and flowers.
[1][2] Monū grew up around Australia, as their father's job was in the Australian Defence Force.
Their mother is an avid collector of Tongan crafts, adornments and ngatu (bark cloth).
Monū was not taught how to make Tongan crafts in a traditional way, so they developed their own interpretations with materials they had at hand.
[3] Monū lives between Canberra, Australia and Auckland, New Zealand, and works across the different mediums of photography, moving-image, fashion and adornment, performance and drawing exploring identity, family and Pacific peoples' queer experience in the diaspora.