2012 issues:

Indigenous #2: guest co-editors Stephanie Radok and Daniel Browning  (June)

Second in annual mega-issue series, survey of new developments in the field - new art, debates, exhibitions, projects and publications. Authors include Djon Mundine, John Kean, Hetti Perkins, Garry Jones, Greg Lehman, Maurice o'Riorden, Gay McDonald. Features on Julie Gough, Archie Moore, Alick Tipoti, Troy Anthony Bayliss, Nici Cumpston, Bindi Cole. The 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial, and exhibitions in China of Jason Wing, John Bulun Bulun and Zhou Xiaoping, plus Tu Di - Shen Ti/Our Land our Body from Warburton Art Centre curated by Gary Proctor will be featured.

 Experiment: editor Din Heagney
(September) 

 International and Australian questioning around experimental models and practices. Where the Artist Run Initiative is going as a site for experimentation. Is funding the death of true experimentation? What do we call art when it becomes so experimental that is steps away from being identifiable as art at all? When art escapes the lab: bioart and political radicalism. Repeated experiments in propaganda: art from the occupy movement. We are now suffering from the abject failure of the grand experiment of globalism. Can the world itself can be regarded as a cosmic experiment? An Artlink Experiment in reader-writing with the outcomes/findings published in the Experiment issue.

Disaster and Fortitude: editors Stephanie Britton and Pat Hoffie
(December)

Fearfulness about the end of the world has been part of the human condition since the beginning of recorded time. Is our time any different? We explore the role that natural and man-made disasters play in feeding this fear. Artists have traditionally engaged with the apocalyptic. As the threat from climate change increases, artists are responding to more than just the gothic imagination or fires and floods to include the impacts of things ostensibly within our control. Living through extreme experience can result in new attitudes and creative problem-solving.

Writers' guidelines

Artlink is open to a very wide range of writers throughout Australia. We encourage writers to contact us if they are interested in contributing. Artlink rarely accepts unsolicited manuscripts.

Because Artlink is a themed magazine which tries to make art relevant across society, we often need to find contributors who have expert knowledge of subjects outside of the art area who can put the work of artists in a broader context.

Write to or email the editor with your CV and one or two examples of previous published writing plus a list of published articles.

We can provide you with our upcoming themes. We offer $300 per 1,000 words. We expect writers to source the images for articles and liaise with artists or galleries for permission to use the images in the print and online versions.