Mazie Turner
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]
Mazie Turner | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mazie Karen Turner 1954 |
| Died | 7 June 2014 (aged 59–60) |
| Alma mater | South Australian School of Art, University of Western Sydney, University of Newcastle (Australia) |
| Known for | Photography |
| Spouse | Richard Tipping |
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
- Bondi Pavilion, 1982 [2]
- Bitumen River Gallery, ACT, 1983 [2]
- JamFactory, Adelaide, 1983 [2]
- International Gallery, Milan, Italy, 1984 [2]
- Sommerville College, Oxford, UK, 1986 [2]
- Salience (A Silience). Paintings by Ma/ze Turner, 3 June - 5 July 1997 [11]
- maize k turner: resilience, Gitte Weise Gallery, 28 July - 22 August 1998 [12]
- Mazie K. Turner: Oves, Gitte Weise Gallery, 22 November - 17 December 2000 [13]
- Mazie Turner: Colour Sweeps Over Dark Grounds, Gitte Weise Gallery, 30 April - 31 May 2003[14]
- Mazie Karen Turner: Between dream and earth, Newcastle Art Gallery, 2 September - 5 November 2017 [15]
- The Art of Maizie Turner, Moree Plains Gallery, 1 June - 31 August 2013
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:
- Newcastle Art Gallery
- The University of Newcastle
- Artbank [2]
- The Australian National University
- The Art Gallery of New South Wales[2]
- The National Gallery of Victoria[2]
- Works listed under Karen Turner:
- The National Gallery of Australia[19][20]
- Works listed under Mazie Karen Turner:
References
- Printmaking, Prints and. "Maize Turner". www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
- Germaine, Max (1991). A dictionary of women artists of Australia. Roseville East, NSW, Australia: Craftsman House. ISBN 976-8097-13-2. OCLC 26591029.
- Elsworthy, Emma (22 June 2014). "OBITUARY: Mazie Turner, artist, teacher, mother". Newcastle Herald. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
- ELSWORTHY, EMMA (22 June 2014). "OBITUARY: Mazie Turner, artist, teacher, mother". Newcastle Herald. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
- "Out of darkness". Artlink Magazine. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
- "Lake Macquarie City Gallery Sculpture Park" (PDF).
- "Mazie Karen Turner: Between dream and earth". Newcastle Art Gallery.
- McMillan, Melinda (18 August 2017). "A lifetime of works on exhibition". Newcastle Herald. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
- "Mazie Karen Turner". Know My Name. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
- "Mazie Turner: Coloured earth" (PDF). University Gallery Newcastle. August 2012.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Newcastle Art Gallery. "MAZIE KAREN TURNER: Between dream and earth". Newcastle Art Gallery. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
- Flyer, "Lake's Edge Festival", Lake Macquarie. Mazie Turner: Art & Artist Files, held in the National Gallery of Australia Research and Archive Collection
- Frederick, Ursula K. "Out of the Blue: Celebrating 175 years of the cyanotype".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - Hopcroft, Helen. "REVIEW: Mazie Turner at the John Paynter Gallery". ArtsHub Australia. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
- "Mazie Karen Turner - Merry Christmas Oxford St. - Search the Collection, National Gallery of Australia". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
- "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.
External links
- Mazie Turner website
- Record for Artist file at The Shaw Research Library, National Gallery of Victoria
- Record in Australian Art Obituaries Index
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