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Artlink Magazine Artlink is an Adelaide-based publication covering contemporary art and ideas from Australia and the

Artlink is a magazine covering issues vital to the contemporary visual arts in a globalised world. Our themed editions present an evolving focus on issues of currency today, including, but not limited to: ecology and sustainability, art and science, design and the built environment, performance-based practice, public art and community engagement, digital art and new media. An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander edition is published annually.

‘The “painting is dead” metanarrative of the previous half century, intended to end a certain universalism, instead ensu...
11/04/2025

‘The “painting is dead” metanarrative of the previous half century, intended to end a certain universalism, instead ensured its immortality. Narrative + Painting takes the end-of-painting myth by the horns and continues Artlink’s model of media-specific thematic issues.

However, it is the first to focus explicitly on a medium that is perfectly able to take care of itself. So why celebrate a tradition that historically “helps itself” to authority? Why highlight the most anachronistic of mediums in an age of inter/trans media?’

Read our editor Una Rey’s full editorial on our website >> https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/6109/editorial-narrative--painting/

Or purchase a copy of our brand new issue ‘Narrative + Painting’.

Image: Diena Georgetti, Archive Standard/Captive, 2024 synthetic polymer paint on canvas 61.5 x 61cm. Courtesy of Neon Parc © the artist

In Artlink’s 44 years, we’ve never published an issue entirely focused on painting. Among the first and most universal g...
08/04/2025

In Artlink’s 44 years, we’ve never published an issue entirely focused on painting.

Among the first and most universal genres of visual art, narrative painting has long been a primary storytelling method.

However, it has endured a critical environment over the previous half-century, from conceptualism to successive waves of new media and dematerialised art practices.

In ‘Narrative + Painting’ the writers-as-narrators tease out the aesthetic, cultural, historical and political narratives that have kept painting alive and alert to its surroundings, as if the end-of-painting myth is, well, a myth.

‘Narrative + Painting’ is out now, purchase it on our website.

Artlink are launching our Parnati–Kudlila / Autumn–Winter issue ‘Narrative + Painting’ at Adelaide Central School of Art...
06/04/2025

Artlink are launching our Parnati–Kudlila / Autumn–Winter issue ‘Narrative + Painting’ at Adelaide Central School of Art’s Painting Symposium, held at the Mercury Cinema on Sunday 13 April.

Highlights include presentations from Artlab, an in-conversation between Richard Lewer and Leigh Robb (AGSA), and short papers from several South Australian artists featured in ‘Narrative + Painting’, including Henry-Jock Walker, Christian Lock, Anna Gore and Mary-Jean Richardson.

Come and get your hands on a copy of Artlink and a head full of thoughts on painting.

See the full line up and register online >> https://acsa.sa.edu.au/events/painting-symposium/

Images. 1. Jasmine Crisp 2. Max Callaghan 3. Loren Orsillo. Courtesy of 4. ‘Narrative + Painting’ in front of Jasmine Crisp mural at Adelaide Central

You, our subscribers and supporters, help keep Artlink running. Thank you! If you can, please continue to support indepe...
03/04/2025

You, our subscribers and supporters, help keep Artlink running. Thank you!

If you can, please continue to support independent visual arts publishing and paid opportunities for writers by subscribing to the magazine. Or gift a subscription to someone special.

Print, digital and archive subscriptions are available >> https://shop.artlink.com.au/collections/subscriptions

Artlink produces three thematic magazines (print and digital) each year and an evolving mix of online art criticism, rev...
03/04/2025

Artlink produces three thematic magazines (print and digital) each year and an evolving mix of online art criticism, reviews, features, interviews and tributes.

Thank you to everyone who supports Artlink and our writers by subscribing to the magazine, signing up to the mailing list and sharing/engaging with our content.

Thank you for being a part of the Artlink community! ❤️

Cover reveal! Our Parnati–Kudlila / Autumn–Winter Issue 45:1 'Narrative + Painting' is here. On the cover is South Austr...
01/04/2025

Cover reveal! Our Parnati–Kudlila / Autumn–Winter Issue 45:1 'Narrative + Painting' is here.

On the cover is South Australian artist Deidre But-Husaim's evocative painting, 'The Between,' (2022). Inside the magazine you'll find an array of provocative narrators and storyteller-painters from Australasia.

Printed on a new satin finish stock, the reproductions will 'pop', doing greater justice to the painters' visions.

A massive thank you to our hard-working and inspiring writers, artists, contributors and design team.

Purchase a copy from our website or at one of our stockists, or better yet subscribe, support independent art writing and publishing, and never miss an issue!

Cover Image: Deidre But-Husaim, The Between [detail, #11], 2022 oil on masonite. 40 x 30cm. Courtesy and © the artist Photo: Sam Roberts

✨ New review ✨Kandos-based Alex Wisser explores artist Katy B. Plummer’s immersive video installation and opera ‘Margare...
21/03/2025

✨ New review ✨

Kandos-based Alex Wisser explores artist Katy B. Plummer’s immersive video installation and opera ‘Margaret and the Grey Mare’ currently showing at Maitland Regional Art Gallery.

‘If we think of the many expanding, mutating, churning moral contradictions we face today, the importance of this work becomes apparent. It is not the job of artists to give us answers but to manifest the questions that we are asking, to manifest the contradictions we are living through in all their painful, confusing opacity.’

Read the full review on our website >> https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/6107/margaret-and-the-grey-mare/

Images: Margaret and the Grey Mare, installation view, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 2025. Courtesy Maitland Regional Art Gallery. Photo:

Artlink Magazine is an independent arts publication that offers valuable space to Australasian contemporary art discours...
19/03/2025

Artlink Magazine is an independent arts publication that offers valuable space to Australasian contemporary art discourse.

By subscribing to Artlink, you’re not only gaining access to a valuable resource that covers all issues surrounding contemporary art, you’re also supporting critical arts writing and the broad range of writers, artists and organisations who contribute to the magazine.

Our next issue ‘Narrative + Painting’ is coming out soon, it’s the perfect time to subscribe!

Thanks for your support ❤️

In our latest issue, Cristea Nian Zhao discusses works from John Young, Ming Liew, Siying Zhou, Eugenia Lim and James Ng...
13/03/2025

In our latest issue, Cristea Nian Zhao discusses works from John Young, Ming Liew, Siying Zhou, Eugenia Lim and James Nguyen and looks at how they each address the intricacies of diasporic identity, migration, and the legacies of colonialism.

‘These artists have moved beyond the binaries formed by discourses of ‘Australian’ and Asian/other, revealing the complexities, tensions, and entangled histories that define diasporic experiences—and therefore diasporic art.’

Read ‘Entangled Belonging: Asian Australian artists and cultural hybridity’ in ‘Hyphen’.

Image: , Questions about a word. Video still, 2024. Courtesy the artist

As Blindside Artist Run Space enters into it's twentieth year - five times longer than the four year average - recently ...
11/03/2025

As Blindside Artist Run Space enters into it's twentieth year - five times longer than the four year average - recently appointed Gallery Coordinator Madeleine Sherburn use sci-fi narrative as a framework in her discussion around fundamental issues in the ARI sector.

"Like ARIs, androids live under precarious circumstances; hunted by bounty hunters (or Blade Runners), leading rogue droids to collectivise and seek a cure for their predetermined termination dates. But inevitably, ‘the light that burns twice as bright burns half as long,’ as creator of the androids, Eldon Tyrell, phrased it. Burnout was always their fate.”

Read 'Terraforming ARIs: Speculations on the Artist Run Initiative' in our latest issue. Madeleine Sherburn is an alumni of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra’s National Young Writers Program, 2024.

Image: James Nguyen, sticker design for Blindside’s 20th Anniversary Artists Edition fundraising initiative, 2024. Courtesy the artist and Blindside Artist Run Space. Photo: Madeleine Sherburn

Ethiopian-born, American artist Julie Mehretu's exhibition at MCA is the first large-scale exhibition of Mehretu’s work ...
07/03/2025

Ethiopian-born, American artist Julie Mehretu's exhibition at MCA is the first large-scale exhibition of Mehretu’s work to be shown in any public institution in Australia, and the first of its kind in the Asia Pacific region. 'When experiencing Julie Mehretu: A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory, be prepared for a phenomenological experience that necessitates suspension of preconceptions...'

Read Jaye Early's review on our website >> https://shorturl.at/ZaYDd '

Julie Mehretu: A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory' is showing at MCA until Sunday 27 April 2025.

Image: Julie Mehretu: A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory, installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2024. Courtesy Julie Mehretu and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia © Julie Mehretu. Photo: Zan Wimberley

Last year Darla Tejada wrote passionately about the Palestine rallies in Naarm, arguing that ‘it is through art—the sens...
06/03/2025

Last year Darla Tejada wrote passionately about the Palestine rallies in Naarm, arguing that ‘it is through art—the sensorial experience of the rallies’ collage of mediums—that the movement’s ‘unity of difference’ is most visceral. The rallies visualised how struggles for liberation, varied and multiplicitous, need solidarity, which cannot be monolithic.’

The essay explores the paradox of art as protest set against the war on Gaza, which in 2025 is facing a different threat following the fragile ceasefire and a new American President.

Read ‘Art as movement building in solidarity with Palestine’ in ‘Hyphen’. Darla is an alumni of the National Gallery of Australia’s National Young Writers Program, 2024.

Image: Protestors hold up a hand‐crocheted banner of the Aboriginal flag with the words ‘No Pride in Genocide’ at the 40th Free Palestine rally in Naarm, 14 July 2024. Photo: .biscotti

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Jon Altman pays tribute to one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists Balang Nakurulk (also known as John Mawurndju...
05/03/2025

Jon Altman pays tribute to one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists Balang Nakurulk (also known as John Mawurndjul AM) who passed away in December.

In a personal reflection of his friend's extraordinary life and accomplishments, Jon writes: 'In my view, as his spectacular career blossomed Balang had one escalating aspiration: to counter-colonise contemporary high art with Kuninjku high art. Time will tell if he has been successful. Balang is dead; long live the rarrk tradition.'

Read his full tribute on our website >> https://shorturl.at/IaHRj

Image: Balang, Rainbow Serpent's antilopine kangaroo, 1991, natural earth pigments, binder on eucalyptus bark, braced with wood, natural fibre string, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. © the Artist’s Estate. Courtesy of Maningrida Art Centre and the Artist's Estate.

‘The internet has become the master and the master’s tools; it is a platform for hosting and producing critical digital ...
27/02/2025

‘The internet has become the master and the master’s tools; it is a platform for hosting and producing critical digital art, and the very object of critique. As always, artists respond to their times. They are intervening into existing digital systems, proposing counternarratives and sabotaging the paths of capital.’

Rory Gillen explores projects critically looking into the digital systems that ‘surround and mediate our everyday life.’

Read ‘Solipsism and Sabotage: Throwing a wrench into the endless doomscroll’ in our latest issue.

Image: Rory Gillen, A Modern Worker Basks in Artificial Sun, 2023 disposable vapes, single board computer, PLA, circuit boards, copper, solar panel, halogen worklight. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Rory Gillen

‘Lee has created a figure that is undying; that breathes life and light into its surroundings while also pulling them in...
24/02/2025

‘Lee has created a figure that is undying; that breathes life and light into its surroundings while also pulling them in.’

In 2024, emerging writer Mackenzie Lee wrote poetically about how art can devour itself in relation to Lindy Lee’s installation ‘Ouroboros’.

The stainless-steel sculpture, based on the ancient image of a snake eating its own tail, is now permanently settled in front of the National Gallery of Australia.

Read ‘To become, to consume, to destroy’ in our latest issue ‘Hyphen’.

Mackenzie is an alumni of the National Gallery of Australia’s Young Writers Program, 2024.

Image: Lindy Lee, Ouroboros, 2021‐24. Installation view, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Kamberri_Canberra, 2024, commissioned for the National Gallery’s 40th anniversary, 2022 © Lindy Lee. Photo: Martin Ollman

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'The old internet is almost gone, now replaced by highly optimised, data- ised platforms designed to lock you in and kee...
20/02/2025

'The old internet is almost gone, now replaced by highly optimised, data- ised platforms designed to lock you in and keep you scrolling (aka the Clearnet). But even so, artists and poets continue to make work online. The spirit of the early web remains in small pockets...'

Artist and digital producer Sophie Penkethman-Young looks at the online ARIs that are 'keeping the handmade web alive'.

Read 'Gardens at the edge of the internet' in our latest issue >> https://shorturl.at/zzROQ

Image: Eric Jiang, If we came across a future, 2023‐ongoing interactive animation (still). Courtesy the artist and Crawlspace

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‘Narrative + Painting’ is at the printer! Can you guess the cover? 👀 This is the first issue of Artlink Magazine to be printed on a satin art stock, which will give a bolder and brighter colour to the paintings featured inside this of issue, while still being as ecologically sound. ❤️ We can’t wait for you to see it! Subscribe now. #ArtlinkMagazine #YourArtlink #ContemporaryArt

A glimpse at ‘Hyphen’. Have you checked out our latest issue yet? 👀

Join Una Rey and Faye Neilson at Singleton Arts + Cultural Centre tomorrow 2pm - 3:30pm to launch our latest issue ‘Regional’ and mark the closing weekend of LiddleWORKS.✨💃🏼 Hope to see you there! ❤️

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A message from our Assistant Editor Bel Howden ❤️ Thank you to everyone who has dontated to our ACF 99.9% Digital campaign. We're so close to reaching our goal! Once these last 3 issues have been successfully digitised and uploaded to our website, then 100% of the archive will be accessible for subscribers and researchers and future writers worldwide. Donate now >> https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2EMn000005YXFCMA4/999-digital

Artlink is seeking your support to finalise the last stages of digitising our forty-three-year archive. We are SO close, with only 3 of 172 issues remaining to be digitised – and with your help we can make 100% of the archive accessible for future writers and readers worldwide. Every dollar raised before June 30 is ✨ MATCHED ✨ with a boost of up to $5,000 from Creative Australia thanks to the Australian Cultural Fund Boost program. Read more about our 99.9% Digital project here >> https://shorturl.at/jlpNW Special thanks to our official partners Campus Color Printing.

Our Parnati–Kudlila / Autumn–Winter issue 'Eco-critical' is here! Our cover image comes from 'Chanamee, Never die (2023)' and shows a young desert oak / kurkara in a burn near Karrinyarra / Central Mt. Wedge, led by traditional custodians Nigel Andy and Terrance Abbott and filmed by Tim Georgeson. A massive thank you to our talented writers, artists, contributors and design team ❤️ Purchase a copy on our website or at one of our stockists, or better yet subscribe and never miss an issue! Video: Tim Georgeson, Nigel Andy & Terrance Abbott, Chanamee, Never Die (detail), 2023. Commissioned by Fremantle Arts Centre & Indigenous Desert Alliance. Image courtesy of Tim Georgeson

A big thank you to all our supporters - our readers, writers and featured artists, editorial advisors, guest editors and dedicated board, our designers, printers, distributors, stockists, suppliers and advertisers ❤️ Wishing you a fun, safe and relaxing break and an easy start to 2024. The Artlink office is closed from today and will be back on Monday 15 January with a new website and archive access.

The Tarnanthi Art Fair returns as both an in person and online event, after two years of being presented online only. The in-person Art Fair provides a unique opportunity to meet Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and buy works of art. We'll be at the Art Fair this weekend on Friday night and Saturday morning - make sure to come past our stall and say hi! Tarnanthi Art Fair 2023 20-22 October Adelaide Entertainment Centre More info >> https://rb.gy/6qhyb Video: Closer Productions Art Gallery of South Australia

Flicking through our latest issue ‘After AI’ 😍

KINK collective have written an essay on Queer Australian Art History in the Archive with many of the articles they looked at available to read on our website. Sydney WorldPride 2023 may be finishing up today, but you can always dive into our archive: https://bit.ly/3mnGeSO

A look inside our Warltati / Summer 2022 issue INDIGENOUS__ Have you got your copy yet? Music from Tamsen Hopkinson and Woody McDonald's playlist 'trippin with the birds', listen on our spotify!

#repost @studio._._ ‘Dwelling (Victorian Issue)’ is the fourth iteration of artist Archie Moore’s large-scale installation shown Gertrude Contemporary at the end of 2022. The exhibition is a recreation of Archie’s childhood home and considers ideas of archaic residue, time travel, constructed narratives and memory. His practice is embedded in Aboriginal politics and the wider impact of racism. Archie Moore (Kamilaroi/Bigambul) was born in Toowoomba. We travelled to Archie Moore’s home in Ngudooroo for a conversation documented in the latest edition of Artlink Magazine Indigenous, guest edited by Tristen Harwood and Dean Cross.

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