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 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.
Teneille (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist and creative producer based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Her practice focuses on social change and community engagement through art-making and events. She works across performance, writing, visual art, installation, and broadcasting.
Teneille’s work has been programmed at Sydney Festival, Art Gallery of NSW, Re//Perth Festival, Midsumma, Science Gallery, National Wool Museum, Melbourne Fashion Festival, Melbourne Design Week, Shepparton Festival, SouthSide Festival, and National Sustainable Living Festival.
Teneille’s practice centres around collaboration. She is in two collectives—Fast Fashun and The Midnight Horrors. And, has worked with the Centre for Reworlding, Doppelgangster (UK/Aus), enormous face (USA), and Teatro de los Sentidos (Spain).
As a producer Teneille has worked for 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. Teneille produced events around Australia, edited the anthology Young and Queer, and co-wrote the Victorian government report of the same name..
Organisation/Company
Name: Fast Fashun art collective
My Role: artist and creative producer
Fast Fashun is a group of artists from Melbourne, Australia, focused on the climate emergency. The collective is made up of artists who identify as LGBTQIA+, neurodiverse, chronically ill, and disabled. Accessibility and inclusion are at the core of our practice.
The collective uses theatre, art therapy, and visual art to create durational and interactive installations and performances where audiences come face-to-face with the waste produced by the fast fashion industry.
Fast Fashun has presented work at Sydney Festival, Re//Perth, Midsumma Festival, Melbourne Fashion Festival, Geelong Design Week, National Wool Museum, National Sustainable Living Festival, Glenroy Festival, and South Side Festival. They received recognition from the 2021 Green Room Awards for Contemporary and Experimental Performance and were finalists in the Midsumma Australia Post Art Award 2022.
Their work has been described as ‘continually setting higher standards for live art and fashion,’ by The Fashion Advocate, and ‘fun, empowering and engaging’ by The Guardian.
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I was born and raised, and now live and work, on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation -- Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.
House of Fast Fashun
Artform: experimental, cross-platform
Development Status: Tour Ready
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Synopsis
The House of Fast Fashun is an interactive and durational performance where audiences become the fashion designer, maker, and catwalk model.
Fashion houses are where designers and their teams create collections of work. They are synonymous with expression, creativity, collaboration and community. We lampoon the idea and create a temporary sculpture in the shape of a house out of clothing and textile waste. The house forms the centrepiece of the installation then the performance happens around it.
An audience member comes to the house, is welcomed by the host and invited to explore the piles of clothing waste that surround it. Artists are busy rummaging through the pile alongside the audience or beginning their creations on the tables.
Audiences are asked to make something new from the waste – a haute couture look for the runway. The runway happens every hour on the hour – hence the name Fast Fashun. With time against them a frenzy of making starts to unfold.
There is a low barrier of entry to creating an outfit. Pinning things together with safety pins is encouraged, but sewing machines are available and the artists are on hand to help.
The host calls the time: ‘Fifteen minutes until showtime’, ‘Ten minutes’, ‘Five’ – ‘Tools down’. All audience members who will be modelling their creation are asked to head inside the house. The rest of the audience sits on the benches that line the runway in front of the house, ready to view the fashion show.
The music starts and the first model bursts out of the door of house onto the catwalk. Audiences cheer. The model struts down the runway showcasing what they have just created. Participants of all ages and abilities take to the runway. Everyone is celebrated.
It then all starts again. ‘Fifty minutes til the next runway!’
Creative Team and Crew
The collective comprises Teneille, Famous Artist Sebastian Berto, Luna Aquatica, and Sarah Seahorse. The artists have been collaborating on projects for the past decade, using their combined skillset to create art that is a tool for social change.
Sebastian Berto, a graphic designer, illustrator, performer, and art-therapist with a BA in Animation and Interactive Media, has facilitated interactive art spaces at the NGV. Teneille, a multi-disciplinary artist and creative producer, creates unique live-art experiences that invite audience engagement through long-form immersive work, satire, and writing.
Luna Aquatica and Sarah Seahorse create fantastical displays of wearable art, large-scale soft fabrication, body puppetry, and provocative performance, using recycled media and found objects. They are two-time award winners at the international World of Wearable Art Awards and hold degrees in Youth work and Community Development, Community Theatre and Costume Design, with vast experience in community art making and the costume and theatre industries.
Number of People in the Touring Party
5
Previous Seasons
Re//Perth Festival (Western Australia), July 2024
South Side Festival, (Vic, Aus), May 2024
Sydney Festival, (NSW, Aus) Jan 2024
Midsumma Festival (Vic, Aus) Jan 2023
Reviews and Quotes
‘Fun, empowering and engaging’ - The Guardian.
Technical Rider & International Touring Info (if applicable)
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