Winner 2013 Kennedy Awards for his "Evolution of Tony (Abbott)" in the Fairfax Press.
Rocco graduated from the South Australian School of Art, with a credit in drawing.
Mixing painting and drawing, he has been working as a committed professional artist since graduating in 1981
He lived and worked in Adelaide and Canberra before settling in Sydney in 1988, and his illustrative work has been published in the Fairfax press for the past twenty years, as well as in Rolling Stone magazine and American Sports Illustrated among many others.