Paradoxa Collective comprises four contemporary artists: Penelope Aitken, Anna Farago, Siri Hayes and Susan Wirth. Based on Wurundjeri Woiwurrung Country in the outer north east of Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, they share an interest in peri-urban landscapes, connecting to the land through practical restoration and regeneration activities combined with site-informed art making. In their art practices they work across a range of media, from photography, textiles, painting, sound and video, and often use natural and found materials to create works that reflect on connections between places and people.

Formed in 2015, the artists in Paradoxa Collective first exhibited together in A Crafted History: People and Place, curated by Lisa Byrne and Jane O’Neill at ArtSpace Realm. In 2018 the Collective instigated the ‘Friends of Bunjil Reserve Food Fibre & Medicine Garden‘ to maintain a Wurundjeri and Nillumbik Council initiative in Paton Hill, and have met there monthly since 2018. During 2019 and 2020 Paradoxa organised Walking, Talking, Listening, Learning - a series of six guided walking talks in Bunjil Reserve and online. In early 2021 the Collective exhibited work generated from these walks in Satellite of Love - Perspectives from Bunjil Reserve, at the Eltham Library and then in Bark, leaves, soil, berries: conversations on place, at Art Gallery 275, Ivanhoe Library and Cultural Hub in April-May 2021. In 2022 and 2023 Paradoxa continued to work at Bunjil Reserve with a series of activities called Under the Canopy; Making and Shaping, and producing a major public art commission, Tread Lightly in memory of Wurundjeri Elder, Aunty Judy Nicholson. Commissioned by the RACV in 2024, Paradoxa produced Hanging earth, grounded stars for ArtHouse, Goldfields Resort and at the Creswick Clay Pit on DjaDja Wurrung Country. In 2025 Paradoxa conducted two workshops called Grassroots action draw: Postcards from friends, the first at Planting Party at Federation Square, Skyline Park and the second at Toolangi State Forest in Kinglake.

Paradoxa Collective acknowledges and pays respect to the Wurundjeri Traditional Owners and Elders, past, present and emerging, of the country in which we live and work.

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