Mazie Turner Explained

Mazie Turner
Birth Name:Mazie Karen Turner
Birth Place:Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Alma Mater:South Australian School of Art, University of Western Sydney, University of Newcastle (Australia)
Known For:Photography
Spouse:Richard Tipping

Mazie Karen Turner (1 November 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 Turner.

After completing an art school degree in Adelaide in 1979, she moved to Sydney with her partner Richard Tipping and lived in North Bondi from 1980 until 1984 when they left for Italy to take up a residency offered through the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council.This opportunity was helped by a grant from the Dyason Bequest of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Turner lived both near Milan and then in Venice for six months before moving to London and then to Oxford. She returned after nearly three years at the end of 1986 and lived in Sydney's Glebe until 1989 when she moved with her family to Newcastle, and then in 1992 to the lakeside town of Wangi Wangi until 2006 when she moved back to Newcastle. Turner had three children with partner Richard Tipping.[4]

Turner's exhibitions included a significant painting show at Damien Minton Gallery [5] in Sydney in 2013, from which the Drill Hall Gallery [6] bought a major work.

She died in 2014. A commemorative sculpture by Tipping, titled Morning (2007) features in the Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery's Sculpture Park.[7]

She was commemorated in a memorial exhibition at Newcastle Art Gallery in September 2017.[8] [9] Turner's work was included in Part II of the Know My Name exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia from 2021 to 2022.[10]

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) on colour theory in painting.

She lectured and taught fine art at both the University of Newcastle and Hunter TAFE's Newcastle Art School.[11] [12]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Printmaking . Prints and . Maize Turner . 2023-03-11 . www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au . en.
  2. Book: Germaine, Max . A dictionary of women artists of Australia . 1991 . Craftsman House . 976-8097-13-2 . Roseville East, NSW, Australia . 26591029.
  3. Web site: Elsworthy . Emma . 2014-06-22 . OBITUARY: Mazie Turner, artist, teacher, mother . 2023-03-11 . Newcastle Herald . en-AU.
  4. News: Out of darkness. Artlink Magazine. 2017-08-22. en.
  5. http://damienmintonpresents.com
  6. https://dhg.anu.edu.au/collection/
  7. Web site: Lake Macquarie City Gallery Sculpture Park.
  8. Web site: Mazie Karen Turner: Between dream and earth. Newcastle Art Gallery.
  9. News: A lifetime of works on exhibition. McMillan. Melinda. 2017-08-18. Newcastle Herald. 2017-08-22. en.
  10. Web site: Mazie Karen Turner . 2022-03-10 . Know My Name . en.
  11. News: OBITUARY: Mazie Turner, artist, teacher, mother. ELSWORTHY. EMMA. 2014-06-22. Newcastle Herald. 2017-08-22. en.
  12. Web site: August 2012 . Mazie Turner: Coloured earth . University Gallery Newcastle.
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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

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