John Charles Goodchild (30 March 1898 – 9 February 1980) was a painter and art educator in South Australia who mastered the mediums of pen drawing, etching and watercolors.
In 1913 the family emigrated to South Australia, where young John worked as a signwriter before enlisting in the First AIF in 1917,[1] and served as a stretcher bearer with the 9th Field Ambulance in France, where he was wounded in 1918.
[3] In 1929 they established a studio in Adelaide and John began exhibiting his water colours with the South Australian Society of Arts of which he was a prominent member and its president 1937-1940.
Around 1935 he and F. Millward Grey were commissioned by the South Australian Tourist Bureau to produce a series of posters which were extensively used on railway station billboards and elsewhere.
[8] Goodchild designed the distinctive lamps and standards which grace the Adelaide City Bridge, King William Road, opened 1931.