Photographer and MUA: Kate McWilliam; Hair: Steve Monroe
Teneille Clerke (aka Tenfingerz)
Teneille is an award-winning 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 Rawcus, Snuff Puppets, MKA Theatre of New Writing, Doppelgangster (UK & Aus), Enormous Face (USA), Teatro de los Sentidos (Spain), and Take 3 Presents (USA).
Teneille writes confessional autofiction under a moniker. Her work on men’s violence was shortlisted for the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Award 2025. She is a current Hot Desk Fellow at The Wheeler Centre and is Nillumbik Shire’s writer in residence for 2025-2026.
In 2025, Fast Fashun won the Melbourne Fringe Artform Shaker Award. In 2021, they received an acknowledgement from the Green Room Awards for Contemporary and Experimental Performance and were finalists 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.
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 2025, Teneille worked as a creative producer for artists Dr Jen Rae and Claire G. Coleman at the Centre for Reworlding, helping deliver digital and in-person programs. Previously she 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.
In her spare time, she’s a low-key prepper.