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cartoonist, a freelance cartoonist and member of the Australian Black and White Artists’ Club, was living in Hawthorn, Melbourne in 1994. He organised the first National Cartooning Week, launched on 13 September 1993 at Darling Harbour, Sydney, and in Melbourne. He won the 'Hotel Inter-Continental Tourism Cartoon’ Stanley Award in 1993, the Best Cartoon Done on the Night and the Hotel Inter-Continental Tourism Cartoon Award at the annual cartooning awards ceremony in 1994, and the Sport category prize in the 1994 Melbourne Savage Club Centenary Art Prize. In 1994 he won a gold plaque as the inaugural 'Public Choice’ prizewinner at the first annual International Cartoon Salon, Cvorak, Yugoslavia, the theme being 'Love, Oh Love’ (other finalists included Louis Postruzin and Henk Kaptein). He was a category winner in the Rotary National Cartoon Award in 1998 and 2000.

Represented in Rainbow by 'The Birth of a Nation Torch Relay’, a series of historical figures passing on the Olympic torch of ideals from 1901 to 2001 (Aborigine holding torch of 'Reconciliation’). His prize-winning 'Cultural Desert Tours of Australia’ (“Stick together folks…we’re about to enter the habitat of the half-pissed loudmouthed drongo… We may even spot a RAT-ARSED LACONIC YOBBO!”) was hanging in Sketches Bar, Inter-Continental Hotel, Sydney in 1995 (reproduced Foyle, 63). The sole Goodwin originals in Mitchell Library are a pair c.1994 in the Australian Black and White Artists’ Club collection (PxD 586/GOODWIN/1-2)

Writers:

Kerr, Joan

Date written:

1996

Last updated:

2007