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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.

NEW REVIEW // In the latest of our series of regional reviews, Louise Martin-Chew responds to The Condensery’s summer ex...
26/12/2025

NEW REVIEW // In the latest of our series of regional reviews, Louise Martin-Chew responds to The Condensery’s summer exhibitions 'Cowgirls Are Forever', a new body of work by artist Merinda Davies, and 'The Show', an exhibition of artworks by local artists from the Somerset region.

'It is [the] drive and the calibre of its directors that has assisted The Condensery, since it launched in 2022, to consistently punch above its weight, maintaining high quality locally invested exhibitions in concert with conceptual contemporary practice.'

Read the full review on our website >> https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/6177/cowgirls-are-forever-merinda-davies--the-show/

Images: 1. Merinda Davies, Eulogy for Pollinators (detail), 2025, copper, resin and insects. Installation view, Cowgirls Are Forever, The Condensery, 2025. Photo: Jim Filmer. 2. Elizabeth Poole, Observations at an agricultural show (detail), 2025, wire and copper, size variable. Installation view, The Show, The Condensery, 2025. Photo: Jim Filmer.

From the small Artlink crew, a warm thanks to all our readers, subscribers, guest editors, publishing partners, philanth...
18/12/2025

From the small Artlink crew, a warm thanks to all our readers, subscribers, guest editors, publishing partners, philanthropic donors and production collaborators throughout 2025. We would not be here without the ongoing support of CreateSA and Creative Australia, and we’re thankful for the flow-on opportunities to work with a wide range of writers, artists and guest editors.

Wishing you all a restful, abundant and peaceful summer break. We say peaceful acutely aware of the wars and violence people are experiencing across so many parts of the globe and at home in Bondi this week.

Go well into the New Year, and with good will and hope for 2026.

Artlink returns to the office on 12 January.

Artlink is thrilled to welcome Dr Eleen Deprez, Assistant Editor, who will take up her role in January 2026. Eleen is a ...
18/12/2025

Artlink is thrilled to welcome Dr Eleen Deprez, Assistant Editor, who will take up her role in January 2026. Eleen is a curator, writer and philosopher of art who has developed and collaborated on contemporary art projects across Europe, the UK and Australia.

Moving to Adelaide in 2020, Eleen joined FELTspace as Co-Director (2021–2023) and later served as Chair (2023–2024). In 2023, she co-founded The Little Machine (TLM), an independent gallery dedicated to contemporary and experimental art which has brought her into direct contact with the South Australian art community.

Eleen holds a PhD in History and Philosophy of Art, the University of Kent (UK), an MA in Philosophy from the Free University of Brussels and an MFA from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (Belgium). Her writing and editorial work has been published in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, The British Journal of Aesthetics, Debates in Aesthetics, Fine Print and The Review Board. She has lectured in art history and theory at the University of Kent and the University of South Australia and is a senior tutor at the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford.

Welcome to the team Eleen, we’re delighted to have you on board. ❤️

Image: Eleen Deprez during her artist-writer residency with (writer in The Mother Issue!!) at Artpod in 2022. Image credit:

‘With perseverance, discipline, and the support of husbands and whānau, mothers exemplify how creative expression is ins...
16/12/2025

‘With perseverance, discipline, and the support of husbands and whānau, mothers exemplify how creative expression is inseparable from family life. Despite time constraints, financial hardship, cultural fragmentation and societal assumptions that undervalue caregiving and art, they persist in creating.’

Tessa Ma’auga spoke with artist-mothers Robin White, Ebonie Fifita-Laufilitoga-Maka, Veranoa and Lillian Hetet, Terri Te Tau and Erena Arapere- Baker who graciously shared their reflections and insights into the coherence between motherhood and artistic expression for her essay ‘Seeking Coherence: Art and Motherhood in Aotearoa’.

Read it in ‘The Mother Issue’.

Image: Mother and child doing a Faina learning piece gifted by Ebonie Fifita and her son, 2025. Photo courtesy of Tessa Ma’auga

The Motherload! 🩵❤️‘The Mother Issue’ reminds us of the ‘mother’s load’ : the juggle between being a professional creati...
11/12/2025

The Motherload! 🩵❤️

‘The Mother Issue’ reminds us of the ‘mother’s load’ : the juggle between being a professional creative, and the true weight and responsibility for all those under our care.

This last week we are boasting records sales, shipping out all over the world, with numbers too high (and too heavy) to carry over to the post office on foot. Says a lot!

Thank you to everyone who subscribes to Artlink or who has purchased this issue already. If you haven’t purchased your copy yet, we will be processing orders up until next Wednesday 17th December before the Christmas break. 💌

Digital copies are also available. Just head to our website >> https://www.artlink.com.au/issues/4530/the-mother-issue/

‘Photography has historically enabled women a strong degree of agency and immediacy in the representation of self-experi...
11/12/2025

‘Photography has historically enabled women a strong degree of agency and immediacy in the representation of self-experience. Women have used photography to interrogate, critique, undermine and redefine representations of the female experience, to challenge expectations and societal norms and to invalidate stereotypes.

And yet when I began thinking about the relationship between photography and motherhood, I found myself approaching the topic with an assumption: that a mother’s photographs were typically conceived of within the realm of the vernacular.

I couldn’t say why I knew this to be true–the internalised male gaze of my consciousness–but I was right...’

For her essay ‘Photographing Motherhood’ in our latest issue, Savannah Smith asked artists Claudia Pharès, Lisa Murray, Kate Golding, Paola Balla, Cecilia Sordi Campos, Ying Ang, Clare Rae and Tania Lou Smith the question ‘how have you negotiated your practice in relation to your experience of motherhood?’

Continue reading thier responses in ‘The Mother Issue’.

Image: 1. Claudia Pharès, Motherwork #1, 2021. Type c print. 40 x 33 cm. Courtesy of the artist.

‘I was reminded when researching this article how deeply entwined the experiences of being an artist and a mother truly ...
08/12/2025

‘I was reminded when researching this article how deeply entwined the experiences of being an artist and a mother truly are. Both roles are often regarded as ‘choices’; both are mythologised as vocational, requiring great personal sacrifice and self-discipline, done in the spirit of love, all consuming and unpaid and performed with a devotion that routinely overwhelms financial, temporal and even physical limitations...’

For ‘The Mother Issue’ we asked Countess.Report founder Elvis Richardson to objectively measure a subjective identity: the artist-mother.

Read her analysis ‘Artist to the power of mother’ in our new issue.

Image: , Stove, 2010. Oil on linen, 127 x 102 cm. Courtesy of the artist, , Sydney and , London.

"In the 44 years Artlink has been publishing, The Mother Issue is the first solely dedicated to the subject. That is not...
05/12/2025

"In the 44 years Artlink has been publishing, The Mother Issue is the first solely dedicated to the subject. That is not to overwrite the archive it joins (Feminist Perspectives, 1984; Art & the Feminist Project, 1994; Art and Childhood, 2001; Positioning Feminism, 2017) but to say that art historical absence made me waver. Feminism is cool; motherhood is naff. Is there an audience (beyond mothers)? What is new or left to say? The overwhelming response to our writer call-out not only proved it an evergreen, evolving subject, but also resulted in commissions that pull apart these naturalised self-preclusions and criticisms."

Read our guest editor Belinda Howden's editorial for 'The Mother Issue' on our website.

Photo: B.Howden

'The Mother Issue' has arrived! In Artlink's 44 years of publishing, 'The Mother Issue' is the first solely dedicated to...
01/12/2025

'The Mother Issue' has arrived!

In Artlink's 44 years of publishing, 'The Mother Issue' is the first solely dedicated to the subject. Taking up a distinctly millennial lens, it brings together essays, conversations, interviews, poetry and reviews from across Australia and Aotearoa / New Zealand on the perils, particularities and power of the artist-mother.

This issue is guest edited by Belinda Howden, with support from the Artlink team, in particular Una Rey and Tabatha Forbes. Many thanks to the support of , and Chair Kelly Gellatly; cover artist Tania Lou Smith; Flux designer Tess Malpas; and of course our amazing writers and contributors. Purchase a copy from our website or at one of our stockists, or better yet subscribe to support independent art writing and publishing.

Cover image: Tania Lou Smith, Untitled (pram variations) #1, 2020, pigment inkjet print on Somerset museum archival rag.
84 x 56cm. Courtesy of the artist.

It's the season of giving! Gift a subscription of Artlink to a loved one (or yourself) this Christmas and support us, in...
30/11/2025

It's the season of giving! Gift a subscription of Artlink to a loved one (or yourself) this Christmas and support us, independent arts publishing and our writers. Subscribe to the magazine before the end of November and receive a bonus subscription to our 40+ year archive.

We're excited to round out 2025 with our first Artlink issue dedicated solely to the subject of motherhood. And we have ...
28/11/2025

We're excited to round out 2025 with our first Artlink issue dedicated solely to the subject of motherhood. And we have more exciting issues, partnerships, reviews and content coming in 2026.

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. With publications closing or fully transitioning to an online platform, we are thankful to still be here offering a space for critical contemporary arts writing.

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