We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campus is situated, the people of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung, who have created art, made music and told their stories here for thousands of generations. We also acknowledge and extend our respect to the Traditional Owners of all lands on which our work is viewed, shared and enjoyed, and to all Elders, past, present and emerging.

VCA Art 2025

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting)

My multidisciplinary practice explores the visual, temporal, and material dimensions of making. Recent work attends to textures and surface qualities in painting as they shift and intersect, producing traces that unsettle habitual patterns. Meaning emerges and recedes, resists closure, and regenerates,—inviting perceptual and sensory engagement with the unstable, in-between spaces of mark and gesture.


These investigations grow from my diasporic condition, where translation, displacement, and cultural crossings shape the terrain of perception. The work extends this inquiry into language and material, proposing painting as a provisional site where traces resonate with histories of movement and suggest new connections.

Soyo Paek

Soyo Paek, Emergence, Wood board, rice paper, acrylic colour, asemic writing on paper, 120 x 40cm, 2025

Soyo Paek, 표류하는 말들 / letter from others, Graphite and soft pastel on unprimed canvas, 60 x 60cm, 2025

Soyo Paek, 시차/behind, 3 min 55 sec, 2025

Soyo Paek, Installation view, 2025. Image courtesy of the University of Melbourne. Photography by Christo Crocker.