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.
Flowers: Passion. Pain. Nation.
An exhibition focussed on so well-worn an artistic motif as flowers might, on the face of it, appear to be swimming against the tide of the current zeitgeist.
