Assunta and Lou Art Club at Primary, Nottingham, 2025
Photographs by Becky Beinart, Assunta Ruocco
With support from Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) fund, Assunta and Lou delivered a summer holiday workshop at Primary, Nottingham. The session formed part of Assunta and Lou’s After School Art Club and built directly on their shared practice of layering drawing, painting and collage over digital prints in an open, child–adult studio setting.
Delivered within Primary’s holiday programme, the workshop benefitted from the organisation’s strong, ongoing relationships with local families, enabling relaxed and sustained participation across different ages. The context also allowed time for in-depth conversation and mentoring with Primary’s Collaborative Programme Lead, Becky Beinart, supporting reflection on facilitation, access and the practical realities of child-inclusive work in a gallery environment.
The session contributed to the continued development of Assunta and Lou’s collaborative methods and to Ruocco’s wider research into accessible, intergenerational approaches to making that can operate within institutional and community settings.