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Photo by Samuel Engelking for NOW Magazine

Akin artist Quinn Rockliff featured in The Body Issue of NOW Toronto Magazine

January 04, 2018 by Akin Collective in Member News, Interview
“My art practice is about nudity, self-love and female empowerment...every time I draw my body I’m reclaiming it, and to do that for other women is really important. It feels radical to shamelessly love my body as a woman, and political to share it online.”
— Quinn Rockliff for NOW Magazine

Akin Lansdowne artist Quinn Rockliff talks about her art practice, self love, body positivity and more in a segment called Love Your Body in The Body Issue of NOW Magazine.

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Quinn Rockliff's art practice is centred around nudity, self love, and empowerment. Her current project is about women celebrating their bodies as she recreates nude selfies in ink and watercolour. Her Master's thesis in OCAD University's Digital Futures Program focuses on a similar theme and aims to combat shame and power loss through art by challenging the stigma attached to taking and sharing a nude selfie. Quinn is driven to explore how theory and practice can meet in the middle, how her own experience can be reworked into a tool for learning and teaching through example. Find out more about Quinn and see examples of her work at www.quinnrockliff.com

NOW is a Toronto news and entertainment magazine published in print and online weekly.

January 04, 2018 /Akin Collective
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Member News, Interview