Nelle Rodd

She was educated at Neutral Bay Public School, where she was an outstanding student, excelling in drawing, for which she had been taking extra tuition from a Mr Podmore of Mosman.

[1] She later studied at the Sydney Art School, conducted by Julian Ashton and Syd Long, in whose 1908 exhibition she won numerous prizes and was reviewed appreciatively, particularly her depiction of a domestic quarrel.

In a 1912 drawing contest organised by the National Art Gallery for prizes contributed by Sir James Fairfax, Rodd's portrait of two young women came second to a study of old men by A. Dattilo Rubbo.

[11] She died on 10 October 1915 at a private hospital in Neutral Bay following an operation for appendicitis and supervening pneumonia.

[12] In March 1916 Selwyn Betts loaned a number of her paintings for an exhibition by members of the Society of Women Painters, but they were definitely not for sale.