Mazie Turner facts for kids

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

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

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

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

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

Education and work

Turner achieved a Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking and photography at the South Australian School of Art (1976). 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).

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

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• Bondi Pavilion, 1982
• Bitumen River Gallery, ACT, 1983
• JamFactory, Adelaide, 1983
• International Gallery, Milan, Italy, 1984
• Sommerville College, Oxford, UK, 1986
• Salience (A Silience). Paintings by Ma/ze Turner, 3 June - 5 July 1997
• maize k turner: resilience, Gitte Weise Gallery, 28 July - 22 August 1998
• Mazie K. Turner: Oves, Gitte Weise Gallery, 22 November - 17 December 2000
• Mazie Turner: Colour Sweeps Over Dark Grounds, Gitte Weise Gallery, 30 April - 31 May 2003
• Mazie Karen Turner: Between dream and earth, Newcastle Art Gallery, 2 September - 5 November 2017
• The Art of Maizie Turner, Moree Plains Gallery, 1 June - 31 August 2013

Group exhibitions

• Holdsworth Galleries, 1987 '
• King St. Gallery, 1988 '
• Nexus Nightclub, Newcastle, 1989 '
• Newcastle Contemporary Gallery, 1990 '
• Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide, 1991 '
• Jan Taylor Gallery, Sydney, 1991 '
• Lake's Edge Festival, Lake Macquarie, 9 November 2003
• 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

Reviews

• Mazie Turner at the John Paynter Gallery by Helen Hopcroft

Public collections

Turner's work is held in public collections including:

• Newcastle Art Gallery
• The University of Newcastle
• Artbank
• The Australian National University
• The Art Gallery of New South Wales
• The National Gallery of Victoria
  • Works listed under Karen Turner:
    • Desert She Oak trees, passing, maturing, into the night, Papunya, 1981-1982
    • Painting with Tutama and the children came to visit, the evening drawn, Papunya, 1981-1982
• The National Gallery of Australia
  • Works listed under Mazie Karen Turner:
    • Merry Christmas Oxford St., 1979
    • No title. (animal park with billboard), 1979