Ricky Larry’s Caught in the Rearview is an exhibition comprising seven paintings and nineteen ceramic sculptures that respond to the interstices of place and memory. Larry uses painting and sculpture to interrogate memories of moving houses as a child, posing questions around identity and belonging. Moments of familiarity and nostalgia echo through Larry’s recurring references to Australian subculture. Caught in the Rearview invites us to consider artmaking as a facilitator of retracting memory, connecting vast concerns around dislocation and the concept of “home.” Larry uses the car rearview mirror to metaphorically revise landscapes of fragmented time, meshed into one cohesive body of work.

Larry tends to ceramics as a playful attempt to revisit childhood moments through symbolic references to “Aussie” culture. In Ceramic Series (2025), eight suburban homes take us on a time warp in which Larry plays with the idea of scale and form. These are not just tiny representations of homes; rather, they are vessels of memory and time. Embedded into these sculptures are Larry’s attempts to create tangible objects as a way of holding onto a fading past. For Larry, Ceramic Series (2025) is a way to explore the home as both physical and internal spaces of experience, challenging past notions of impermanence. Larry leans into this notion of being in a constant state of the ‘in-between,’ poetically obscuring the arrival and departure of experience. Portraits of cars float central in the picture plane, encapsulated in blocks of colour. Larry simultaneously depicts cars in motion — here, frozen — caught in the rearview, so to speak.

Larry’s paintings revise personal memories of family car trips — always looking out. Dreamy collisions of internal and external worlds are rendered into one seamless picture plane. A cluster of memories ventures through moonlit skies and open landscapes depicted through playful painterly gestures. Larry’s paintings invite a deep sense of adventure that grasps at the tangible and intangible nature of memory.