Mazie Turner

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

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
Spouse(s)Richard Tipping

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.[1]

She died in 2014. A commemorative sculpture by Tipping, titled Morning (2007) features in the Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery's Sculpture Park.[2]

She is commemorated in a memorial exhibition at Newcastle Art Gallery in September 2017.[3][4]

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.[5]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions
  • Out of the Blue: Celebrating 175 years of the cyanotype, Photospace School of Art & Design, ANU, 13–25 August 2017
  • Hothouse (staff exhibition), Newcastle Art School, 2012
  • Down Under Ground, Wieliczka Salt Mine, Drozdowice Chamber, Poland, July - September 2008
  • Pandora's Box, Newcastle Art Space, August - September 2006

Reviews
  • Mazie Turner at the John Paynter Gallery by Helen Hopcroft[6]

Public collections

Turner's work is held in public collections including:

References
  1. "Out of darkness". Artlink Magazine. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  2. "Lake Macquarie City Gallery Sculpture Park" (PDF).
  3. "Mazie Karen Turner: Between dream and earth". Newcastle Art Gallery.
  4. McMillan, Melinda (18 August 2017). "A lifetime of works on exhibition". Newcastle Herald. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  5. ELSWORTHY, EMMA (22 June 2014). "OBITUARY: Mazie Turner, artist, teacher, mother". Newcastle Herald. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  6. Hopcroft, Helen. "REVIEW: Mazie Turner at the John Paynter Gallery". ArtsHub Australia. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
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