Mazie Turner

Mazie Karen Turner (1 November 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 Turner.

Turner's exhibitions included a significant painting show at Damien Minton Gallery in Sydney in 2013, from which the Drill Hall Gallery 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.

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 from 2021 to 2022.

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

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions Bondi Pavilion, 1982 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 Turner: a selection of work from the studio, Damien Minton Gallery, Redfern, 2013 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 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 Works listed under Mazie Karen Turner: Merry Christmas Oxford St., 1979 No title. (animal park with billboard)'', 1979