Mazie Karen Turner (1 November 1954 – 7 June 2014) was an artist from Newcastle, Australia.
[4] 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.
[9][10] Turner's work was included in Part II of the Know My Name exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia from 2021 to 2022.
She completed a PhD in fine art at the University of Newcastle (2008) on colour theory in painting.