Nicole Skeltys is an Australian composer, writer and presenter, currently based in London, UK. From 1993 to 2003 she was part of Btek, an Australian electronica and dance act. Skeltys also released electronic music under the name Artificial during this period and was a member of Clan Analogue. Since 2002 she has been the writer for the webcomic Pigeon Coup with comic artist Aaron Doty. Since 2004, Skeltys has moved away from pure electronica. She established a Melbourne-based band Dust, consisting of vocals, keyboards, guitar, bass and drums, and which has been described as a "mixture of country twang, melancholy folk and urban scrawl, all with psychedelic overtones". In late 2007, she established a psychedelic folk duo called The Jilted Brides with American filmmaker and photographer Tanya Andrea Stadelmann, and in 2008 and 2009 took up a number of artist residencies across the USA. In 2009 Skeltys became an artist in residence at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. Nicole produced a short music mockumentary which won a Platinum Remi at the 2012 WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival.