Mazie Turner
Born
Mazie Karen Turner

1954 (1954)
Sydney
Died7 June 2014(2014-06-07) (aged 59–60)
Alma materSouth Australian School of Art, University of Western Sydney, University of Newcastle (Australia)
Known forPhotography
SpouseRichard Tipping

Mazie Karen Turner (or Maize Karen Turner) (1954 - 7 June 2014) was an artist from Newcastle, Australia. She worked in photography, sculpture and painting.[1][2][3]

She was born in Sydney in 1954 to parents Jim and Zug.[4]

After attending art school, she moved to Wangi Wangi, and had three children with partner Richard Tipping.[5]

She died in 2014. A commemorative sculpture by Tipping, titled Morning (2007) features in the Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery's Sculpture Park.[6]

She was commemorated in a memorial exhibition at Newcastle Art Gallery in September 2017.[7][8] Turner's work was included in Part II of the Know My Name exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia in 2021-22.[9]

Education and work

Turner achieved a Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking and photography at the South Australian School of Art (1976).[2] She later studied a Master of Arts with honours at the University of Western Sydney (1994). She completed a PhD in fine art at the University of Newcastle (2008).[4]

She lectured and taught fine art at both the University of Newcastle and Hunter TAFE's Newcastle Art School.[4][10]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

  • Holdsworth Galleries, 1987 [2]
  • King St. Gallery, 1988 [2]
  • Nexus Nightclub, Newcastle, 1989 [2]
  • Newcastle Contemporary Gallery, 1990 [2]
  • Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide, 1991 [2]
  • Jan Taylor Gallery, Sydney, 1991 [2]
  • Lake's Edge Festival, Lake Macquarie, 9 November 2003 [16]
  • Pandora's Box, Newcastle Art Space, August - September 2006
  • Down Under Ground, Wieliczka Salt Mine, Drozdowice Chamber, Poland, July - September 2008
  • Hothouse (staff exhibition), Newcastle Art School, 2012
  • Out of the Blue: Celebrating 175 years of the cyanotype, Photospace School of Art & Design, ANU, 13–25 August 2017 [17]

Reviews

  • Mazie Turner at the John Paynter Gallery by Helen Hopcroft [18]

Public collections

Turner's work is held in public collections including:

References

  1. ↑ Printmaking, Prints and. "Maize Turner". www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Germaine, Max (1991). A dictionary of women artists of Australia. Roseville East, NSW, Australia: Craftsman House. ISBN 976-8097-13-2. OCLC 26591029.
  3. ↑ Elsworthy, Emma (22 June 2014). "OBITUARY: Mazie Turner, artist, teacher, mother". Newcastle Herald. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  4. 1 2 3 ELSWORTHY, EMMA (22 June 2014). "OBITUARY: Mazie Turner, artist, teacher, mother". Newcastle Herald. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  5. ↑ "Out of darkness". Artlink Magazine. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  6. ↑ "Lake Macquarie City Gallery Sculpture Park" (PDF).
  7. ↑ "Mazie Karen Turner: Between dream and earth". Newcastle Art Gallery.
  8. ↑ McMillan, Melinda (18 August 2017). "A lifetime of works on exhibition". Newcastle Herald. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  9. ↑ "Mazie Karen Turner". Know My Name. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  10. ↑ "Mazie Turner: Coloured earth" (PDF). University Gallery Newcastle. August 2012.
  11. ↑ Flyer, "MA/ZE TURNER Salience (A Silience), 3 June - 5 July 1997, Mazie Turner: Art & Artist Files, held in the National Gallery of Australia Research and Archive Collection
  12. ↑ Flyer, "maize k turner resilience", Gitte Weise Gallery, 28 July - 22 August 1998. Mazie Turner: Art & Artist Files, held in the National Gallery of Australia Research and Archive Collection
  13. ↑ Flyer, "Mazie K. Turner, OVES", Gitte Weise Gallery, 22 November - 17 December 2000. Mazie Turner: Art & Artist Files, held in the National Gallery of Australia Research and Archive Collection
  14. ↑ Flyer, "Colour Sweeps Over Dark Grounds", Gitte Weise Gallery, 30 April - 31 May 2003. Mazie Turner: Art & Artist Files, held in the National Gallery of Australia Research and Archive Collection
  15. ↑ Newcastle Art Gallery. "MAZIE KAREN TURNER: Between dream and earth". Newcastle Art Gallery. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  16. ↑ Flyer, "Lake's Edge Festival", Lake Macquarie. Mazie Turner: Art & Artist Files, held in the National Gallery of Australia Research and Archive Collection
  17. ↑ Frederick, Ursula K. "Out of the Blue: Celebrating 175 years of the cyanotype". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  18. ↑ Hopcroft, Helen. "REVIEW: Mazie Turner at the John Paynter Gallery". ArtsHub Australia. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  19. ↑ "Mazie Karen Turner - Merry Christmas Oxford St. - Search the Collection, National Gallery of Australia". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  20. ↑ "Mazie Karen Turner - No title. (animal park with billboard). [from a portfolio of 13 photographs from Torrens College of Advanced Education]. - Search the Collection, National Gallery of Australia". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
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