Artlink publishes three thematic magazines annually (in print and digital formats), which are responsive to current art world topics and big ideas. We welcome expressions of interest for articles and editorial suggestions. Note that writers are commissioned 3-4 months ahead of print issue landing dates (1 April, 1 August and 1 December), and for reviews while an exhibition is still current. Artlink periodically offers an open call out for submissions; join our mailing list to stay informed. 

INDIGENOUS__TRACE
45:2 | Wirltuti / Spring (August–November 2025)

Guest edited by Jessyca Hutchens (Palyku) and Zena Cumpston (Barkandji), TRACE explores practices which begin with what has been left behind — the echoes, residues, impressions and marks that give presence to the past. Rather than a focus on the historical or archival, such practices embody forms of continuity and the cyclical. This issue began from conversations around printmaking practices which are inherently intermedial (connected to other forms of mark making) and for which trace can provide a potent material and conceptual metaphor. Against a continued discourse on Indigenous art and authenticity that centres direct marks made by the hand of the artist, we turn towards forms of repetition, iteration, mediation and of re-tracing the ancestral.

The Mother Issue
45:3 | Warltati / Summer (December 2025–March 2026) 
Editor: Belinda Howden

Despite art historical invisibility, parenthood is an evergreen subject for artists — mothers especially. The Mother Issue considers motherhood and parenting as a generative force in contemporary art practices, and tracks the ways artists and arts workers navigate their careers against a backdrop of radical technological and ideological change towards child-rearing in the first quarter of the twenty-first century.

Artlink invites writers working in Australia and the Asia-Pacific to submit an Expression of Interest for publication in The Mother Issue. Use the following form to submit a 150-word (max) Expression of Interest. Submissions close midnight, Sunday 6 July 2025.