Arnold Goodwin

Arnold Frederick Goodwin (29 July 1889 – 26 March 1978) was a New Zealand designer, printmaker and puppeteer.

Biography Goodwin was born in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, on 29 July 1889 to parents George and Florence Goodwin. In 1916, with his friend Thomas Gulliver, he founded the Quoin Club to promote graphic and print art in Auckland.

Moving on from the business of commercial art and parting company with Carlton Studio, Goodwin became Director of Design and Applied Art at the Elam School of Fine Arts in 1935. He was involved with the Auckland Little Theatre Society, where he designed sets and performed as an actor and marionette puppeteer. It has been said that "puppetry in New Zealand begins and ends with one man: Arnold Goodwin", and that "his touring marionette productions of Shakespearean plays in the 1940s were widely acclaimed as being in world class".