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Renew Participants: The Ironing Maidens

12 Shields Street, Cairns, QLD
projections | art installations | music | performance

Melania Jack is a queer, regional, artist working within music, film, projection, and performance platforms. Her work with award-winning act The Ironing Maidens involves irons and ironing boards turned into electronic instruments. It has toured large festivals such as Woodford Folk Festival, international festivals such as Fusion Germany, and regional laundromats as site-specific performance spaces.

They won a John Chataway Innovation Award at Adelaide Fringe Festival in 2019 and 2020.

Learn more about the Renew Cairns project.