Adele Younghusband

Adela Mary Younghusband (née Roche, 3 April 1878 – 3 April 1969), generally known as Adele Younghusband, was a New Zealand painter and photographer.

Biography
Adela Mary Roche was born in Te Awamutu on 3 April 1878. She married Frank Younghusband in Christchurch on 1 August 1905, and they went on to have three children, before separating in about 1917.

After working as a photographic retoucher in Hamilton, Younghusband became a member of the Auckland Society of Arts in 1909. In 1919, Younghusband and her three children moved to Whangārei where she started working in a photographic studio in, and establishing herself as a successful portrait photographer. Together with George Woolley, Younghusband helped establish the Whangarei Art and Literary Society, and acted as its secretary. In August 1934, with Ida Carey, Younghusband convened the inaugural meeting of the Waikato Society of Arts in Hamilton. She became its secretary and represented it on the Association of New Zealand Art Societies. In the late 1930s she developed an interest in abstract surrealism and studied with George Bell in Melbourne. In 1964, Younghusband was made a life member of the Waikato Society of Arts.

Selected solo exhibitions
Younghusband was exhibited at
 * An Exhibition of Paintings and Lino-Cuts by Adele Younghusband, Lodestar Galleries Sydney, 1937
 * Solo Exhibition Auckland Society of Arts, 1941
 * Solo Exhibition Waikato Society of Arts, 1945
 * Solo Exhibition Auckland Society of Arts, 1957
 * John Leech Gallery Auckland, 1991
 * Adele Younghusband In Context, Whangarei Art Museum, 1998

Selected group exhibitions

 * New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, 1932
 * New Zealand Society of Artists First General Exhibition, 1933
 * Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Toi Te Papa | Art Of The Nation, 2005