About

Assunta Ruocco is an artist based in Nottingham, UK. She lectures in Fine Art at University of Lincoln and received a practice based PhD from Loughborough University in 2020. Her practice spans painting, photography, moving image, digital technologies and social practice, with a consistent return to the domestic sphere as a site of memory, intimacy, and collaboration. She often works with others, including friends, siblings, art professionals, the public, and her daughter, establishing flexible systems that allow for shared agency and open authorship. Through reanimation, reconfiguration, and intergenerational exchange, she aims to build a methodology grounded in co-presence and repetition, where the artwork becomes an evolving record of relation.

Her teaching and research investigate inclusive pedagogies rooted in care, material engagement, and social context. She is particularly interested in how the spatial and technological conditions of making influence artistic practice, and how situated forms of collaboration can unsettle dominant models of authorship and expertise. Her recent work examines the expanded field of the artist’s studio, the politics of reproductive labour, and the institutional architectures that support or constrain creative work.

Through exhibitions, workshops, writing, and research-led projects, she engages with diverse publics and contributes to critical conversations around feminist visual culture, ecological practice, and alternative modes of learning and exchange.

Assunta is the recipient of Arts Council Develop Your Creative Practice funding (2025) and her work was recently presented at TG Gallery (Nottingham) in the solo exhibition Our Days of Gold (video), and in group exhibitions at the Centre Wallonie Bruxelles (Paris) and The Storey (Lancaster). She has also recently presented her research at PARSE (Valand Academy, Gothenburg) and the University of São Paulo.

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ASSUNTA RUOCCO

Making Room for Children and Art