Assunta and Lou Art Club, Summer Camp, Eastside Projects, 2024
Assunta Ruocco and her nine-year-old daughter Lou presented Assunta and Lou’s After School Art Club as part of the Summer Camp group exhibition at Eastside Projects, Birmingham. The project was tested for the first time as an interactive installation rather than a live workshop. Visitors were invited to engage with a collaborative quilt featuring digitally copied drawings made by Assunta and Lou, alongside scattered art materials and a playful prompt: to improve and transform the drawings together. While many participants created their own contributions, the installation opened up valuable questions around clarity, authorship, and how to sustain a collaborative drawing practice in the artists’ absence.