Barnaby Smith is a writer, editor, critic, poet and musician based on Darug and Gundungurra Country/the Blue Mountains. His writing about art has appeared in Art Guide Australia, Art Collector, Art + Australia, Art Almanac, Openbook, The Quietus and others, and he has written about music, literature and film for Rolling Stone, The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Book Review,Metro, The Guardian and more. His book in the 33 1/3 Oceania series on classic pop albums was published in July 2025, and he is a PhD candidate at Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
The beauty, history and craft of toys is explored in Toy Stories
The history of toys can tell us much about the history of people and culture. And by this logic, Toy Stories at Midland Junction Arts Centre reveals a pattern of improvisation, experimentation and ingenuity in Western Australia over the last century.
