Image by Sophie Hirt at Re//Perth.
Teneille Clerke
Aka Tenfingerz
Teneille 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 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’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, 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. As part of the residency, she curated and produced The Big Local Arts and Climate Expo. She received a Green Room Award nomination for artistic direction and curation for the project.
In 2021, Fast Fashun also received an acknowledgment 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 1800ClimateEmergency was nominated for Best in Experimental at the 2023 Melbourne Fringe.