Amy Malbeuf's skin stitch tattoos embody culture

This is the eighth and final instalment of Art Hurts, a new CBC Arts digital series that focuses on eight of the game-changers in the Canadian tattoo landscape. And they're all female-identifying or gender non-binary.

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Over the past few weeks, we've brought you stories from across the country about tattoos. And they've been told by powerful women and gender non-binary artists, who have used their practice as a way to express themselves, assert their identity and make a lasting mark. Now, you're meeting Amy Malbeuf, a visual artist and cultural tattoo practitioner from Alberta and currently based in Terrance Bay, Nova Scotia. She practices the art of skin stitch, a process that involves running thread through ink and literally sewing it into the skin. It sounds painful — we suspect it is painful — but for Malbeuf, it's also healing.

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