Photographer and MUA: Kate McWilliam; Hair: Steve Monroe
Teneille Clerke (aka Tenfingerz)
Teneille (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist and creative producer. Her practice focuses on social change and community engagement through art-making and events. She works across the mediums of performance, writing, visual art, installation, and broadcasting.
Teneille’s work has been programmed at Sydney Festival, Art Gallery of NSW, Re//Perth Festival, Midsumma Festival, Science Gallery, The National Wool Museum, Melbourne Fashion Festival, Melbourne Fashion Week, Shepparton Festival, Melbourne Art Book Fair, South Side Festival, National Sustainable Living Festival, and Gertrude Street Projection Festival.
Teneille’s art practice centres around collaboration. She is in two collectives — Fast Fashun and The Midnight Horrors. And, has worked with the Centre for Reworlding, MKA Theatre of New Writing, Doppelgangster (UK & Aus), Enormous Face (USA), Teatro de los Sentidos (Spain), and Take 3 Presents (USA).
In 2021, Teneille was the City of Yarra’s artist-in-residence for community art and climate action. She devised, curated and produced The Big Local Arts and Climate Expo as part of the residency and received a Green Room Award nomination for artistic direction and curation for the project.
In 2021, Fast Fashun also received an acknowledgement from the Green Room Awards for Contemporary and Experimental Performance and was a finalist in the 2022 Midsumma Australia Post Art Award. Teneille’s interactive digital work 1800-Climate-Emergency was nominated for Best in Experimental at the 2023 Melbourne Fringe.
As a producer Teneille has worked for arts organisation These Are The Projects We Do Together, helping run their public art space Testing Grounds. She also worked for Australia’s leading LGBTQIA+ youth organisation, Minus18. At Minus18, Teneille produced events around Australia, edited the anthology Young and Queer, and co-wrote the Victorian government report of the same name.
Teneille has a background in fashion, where she worked as a photographer and stylist throughout the 2000s. She is currently studying creative non-fiction writing in the Professional Writing and Editing course at RMIT. Teneille writes confessional autofiction under a moniker. Her work on men’s violence was shortlisted for the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Award 2025.
In her spare time, Teneille is a low-key prepper.