Mazie Karen Turner (1954 - 7 June 2014) was an artist from

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, Australia. She worked in

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and

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. 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

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in September 2017. Turner's work was included in Part II of the Know My Name exhibition at the

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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

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(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

*
Mazie Karen Turner: Between dream and earth
',

, 2 September - 5 November 2017 *
The Art of Maizie Turner
', Moree Plains Gallery, 1 June - 31 August 2013

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 *

', 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

Public collections

Turner's work is held in public collections including: *

* The University of Newcastle *

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* 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 Karen Turner: ***
Merry Christmas Oxford St.
', 1979 ***
No title. (animal park with billboard)
', 1979

References

External links

Mazie Turner websiteRecord for Artist file
at The Shaw Research Library, National Gallery of Victoria
Record in Australian Art Obituaries Index
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