Rose Simmonds b. 1877

Also known as Rose Culpin
  • Artist (Photographer)
Rose Simmonds apparently began photography by assisting her husband but was soon taking and processing her own photographs of her sons. She was active professionally in Brisbane from 1927 to the early 1940s. In 1941 she held a solo exhibition.
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Name
Rose Simmonds
Also known as Rose Culpin
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Photographer)
Other Occupation
  • photographer (ANZSIC code: 6991)
Birth date
1877
Birth place
Islington, London, England, UK
Death date
3 July 1960
Death place
Auchenflower, Brisbane, Qld.
Active Period
  • c.1927 - c.1941
Arrival
  • c.1891 (Brisbane, QLD)
Residence
  • c.1877 - c.1891 London, England, UK.
  • c.1891 - c.1960 Brisbane, Qld.
Training
  • Brisbane Technical College, Qld.
  • Brisbane Girls' Grammar School, Qld.
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book

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References [<ExternalResource: Larner, Bronwyn (1988), 'A Complementary Caste', Surfers Paradise, Qld.>, <ExternalResource: Smith, Sue (1984), 'Queensland Pictorialist Photography 1920-1950', Queensland Art Gallery Exhibition catalogue, Brisbane, Qld.>, <ExternalResource: '[catalogue]', Centre Gallery, [206].>, <ExternalResource: Bradbury, Keith (2002), 'Simmonds, Rose (1877 - 1960)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, [16], Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, [pp 241-242].>, <ExternalResource: Hall, Barbara; & Mather, Jenni (1986), 'Australian women photographers 1840-1960', Greenhouse Publications, Richmond, Vic.>]