Photographer and MUA: Kate McWilliam; Hair: Steve Monroe
Teneille Clerke is an artist and creative producer based in Naarm/Melbourne working across performance, installation and writing.
Teneille’s practice examines collective behaviour, desire, consumption and access through large-scale participatory environments and site-responsive works. Her projects transform galleries, theatres and public spaces into temporary social worlds and invite audiences to move between observer, performer and collaborator.
Teneille is the co-founder of art collectives Fast Fashun and The Midnight Horrors. Her work has been presented at Sydney Festival, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Re//Perth, Science Gallery Melbourne, Midsumma Festival, Melbourne Design Week, Melbourne Fashion Festival and venues, galleries and public spaces across Australia.
Teneille’s work has won the Melbourne Fringe Artform Shaker Award, been nominated for Melbourne Fringe Best in Experimental, nominated for Green Room Awards for curation and artistic direction, and been a finalist in the Burrinja Climate Biennale and Midsumma Australia Post Art Award.
Alongside her live art practice, Teneille writes nonfiction and experimental prose. Her writing on domestic violence was shortlisted for the 2025 Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Award. She was a 2025 Hot Desk Fellow at The Wheeler Centre and is the 2025–2026 Writer in Residence at Nillumbik Shire.