Kickstart showing: Fiddle, Twiddle and Tune
Fiddle, Twiddle & Tune is a new experimental work by Naarm-based artist Prue Stevenson as part of Next Wave’s Kickstart program. Through extensive creative development, Prue has worked closely with a creative team and ensemble to conceptualise this work over the past 18 months. Fiddle, Twiddle & Tune explores the notion that repetitive sensory seeking behaviours linked with autism, can have regulatory benefit to all neurotypes (autistic and non-autistic people).
Prue Stevenson
Engagement: LAB.01Working with media including oil, ceramics, textiles, sculpture, installation and performance, Stevenson advocates for the identity, empowerment and sensory awareness of the autistic community.
She intersects and collides against preconditioned stigmas and their resultant systematic oppression. Stevenson aims to celebrate and progress autistic culture for autistics, while creating experiences that are more broadly accessible.
Stevenson is a practicing fine artist, having completed both a Bachelor of Fine Art (Expanded Studio Practice) and Master of Fine Art (by practice) at RMIT. She is an autistic consultant with AMAZE , works as an associate with GSA (Get Skilled Access), and is also an ensemble member of Rawcus Theatre Group, a 3rd Dan Black Belt in Taekwondo, the singer of Ice Cream in a Mug, and founder of the Stim Your Heart Out project.
Stevenson has exhibited and performed artworks nationally, most notably at the Australian Museum of Contemporary Art in 2018 and 2019, where you can view her “Don’t Fear the Meltdown” article, “Expend” Vide.