The City of Canada Bay Council Sustainability Awards 2007 were awarded to businesses, community groups and individuals who have achieved economic or environmental progress in their local government area.
The awards recognise businesses and community groups that help boost sustainability in the local area by working better, smarter or more productively, while reducing their everyday environmental impact.
The program is designed to encourage sustainability by rewarding organisations’ efforts to revitalise local neighbourhoods, introduce environmental initiatives like recycling or car share schemes and to make their services fully accessible to people with special needs.
Matisse Derivan received awards within two of the available categories for businesses.
Disability Employer of the Year: Recognises businesses that employ and accommodate staff with disabilities. This section was won by Matisse Derivan who seek employees through Achieve Foundation, an employment service that trains and supports people with intellectual disabilities so they find meaningful work.
Business Environmental: Open to businesses which have introduced environmentally sustainable programs such as boosting recycling, reducing waste and pollution or encouraging staff to use public transport and car pooling schemes. Matisse Derivan also received a Highly Recommended Business Environmental award.

Graeme Weinard is tihis year’s winner of “IMAGES OF THE CROSS” art prize sponsored by Matisse Derivan at the TAP Gallery

Jesse congratulates John Borden from Lithgow High School for winning the Matisse/Artists’ Store Artstreet award

Footprints in the Park

Angela Van Wyk created this miniature masterpiece entitled “Holiday Time” which won the Matisse Derivan Sponsored prize at the annual Miniature Art Society exhibition.

Painting Happy Faces- in Sri Lanka
From the 4th till the 17th of July this year Globe Church (formerly Eastlakes Christian Life Centre) sent a team of Children’s workers to Sri Lanka on a mission trip to share a message of love, hope and encouragement with the children of Sri Lanka. Matisse Derivan are proud to supply the face paint for such a worthwhile cause.

Each year at the Royal Easter Show (Sydney) Matisse Derivan provide litres of paint, and dozens of brushes so that children attending the show can enjoy the pleasure of creating their own works of art. Each child could also enter the children’s painting competition, which has become very popular and the quality of the artworks submitted are always high. Here are this year’s winners and runner ups from this year’s show.

Every year, Matisse Derivan sponsors the 2007 Waverley Art Prize Awards in the Acrylic section. Below is Cheryl Richardson’s winning entry,‘The Pathway’ . Congratulations Cheryl and all other winners.

Anne-Marie Hawley receives a prize sponsored by Matisse Derivan for successfully attaining first place in the Advanced Diploma of Fine Arts at the Western Sydney Institute of TAFE Nepean College. Congratulations Anne-Marie!

FRASER COAST SHOW

Matisse Derivan were proud sponsors at the Fraser Coast Show in Maryborough, donating some of our great new art sets as prizes for the Children, Beginners and Advanced Folk Art and Decorative Painting sections.

Entries were of a very high standard, and the Wide Bay Folk Artists were on hand demonstrating various techniques using Matisse Derivan products.

Matisse Derivan would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all
artists that entered.

CHILDREN'S HOPSITALS

Toni Byrne has been spending her time making life a little brighter for children in hospital.
Toni was originally asked to spend a day in North Shore Hospital’s old children’s ward to brighten it up and spent 6 months there painting the corridors and a canvas painting for each bed, so children could have a teddy bear, dinosaur or fairy bed. Toni has since painted the children’s ward in the new hospital and is starting on the teenager’s area after finishing the children’s Emergency Ward of North Shore Hospital.
Matisse Derivan is proud to support an artist whose work makes a difference to children every day.

MURAL MAKING WORKSHOPS

Matisse Derivan , Portland Aluminium, and the Glenelg Shire Arts Program sponsored a mural making workshop for the school holidays in Portland Victoria. It was run for 10 days from
Monday 8th - 19th January at the Camera Club Rooms located on the first floor of The Arts Company, 19 Julia Street, Portland.
Participants from the ages of 13-17 were introduced to a variety of painting, drawing and mixed media techniques while producing a
mural. Participant designers Cindy Allwood and Harley Anson designed a Where’s Wally Mural, substituting the Tasmanian Tiger for Wally. The mural was largely concerned with endangered species in the Lower Glenelg Hopkins Catchment Management Area.
The finished mural is hung at The Portland Leisure and Aquatic Centre.
Participants and co-ordinator of the project, Catherine Bailey, would like to thank Matisse Derivan for their generous materials sponsorship for the project.

REDCLIFFE REGIONAL YOUTH ART AWARDS

Matisse Derivan proudly sponsor the annual Redcliff e Regional Youth Art Awards. Pictured are the recipients of the Matisse Derivan prizes (Matisse Derivan materials), with their presenter Mr Bill Fraser, a long time sponsor of the awards, from Will Fraser Accounting.

Left: Georgina Wright - 2nd Place Traditional
Right: Heidi Brooks - 2nd Place Indigenous
(2nd Place Sheridan Ferguson Contemporary
absent)

PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL

The youth of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital have enjoyed creating their own masks using paints supplied by Matisse Derivan, revealing their personal story in the process. As health professionals staff at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital have had the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding into their experiences of having a chronic illness, by using creative mediums. Each patient has been given a series of themes to choose from as a guideline to
base their design; these include;
* What is it about your experience that you would like to tell the public
* What would you have liked to know when your first came into hospital
* What would you like to tell your friends or family
* What are the challenges and opportunities you’ve experienced
* What has been your journey/story
Everyone is looking forward to the launch of “Reveal” in Youth Week April 2007.

BREAST CANCER AUSTRALIA

is benefitting from the efforts of Karen Martin - who has every reason to support this worthy cause. Karen has been fighting breast cancer for years, and now
volunteers her time to paint faces to raise money for this worthy cause. We were happy to help her in her efforts by donating some much needed face paints.

UNICEF

UNICEF Australia recently staged celebrations of ‘play’ in both Melbourne and Sydney. Matisse Derivan were proud sponsors of the Sydney event, providing paint for the children to use to create a banner with the theme of HIV/AIDS orphans. Photographs courtesy of UNICEF.

COFA

Anna Kristensen recently received a Highly Commended award for her entry,The Big Pineapple, Postcard Paintings at the recent exhibition organised by the COFA Students’ Association.

MANLY YOUTH CENTRE

This mural was completed at Manly with the youth from the Manly Youth Centre - with assistance from Guy Hawson. Matisse Derivan donated paint towards this rewarding project.

REDCLIFFE YOUTH ARTS AWARDS

The Redcliffe Youth Arts Awards were held recently, an event Matisse Derivan proudly sponsors. Peter Houston presented 2nd Place Contemporary, winner Tira Dowling (left) with her award and prize donated by Matisse Derivan. Other winners included 1st place Contemporary, Coutney Law (middle) and 3rd place Comtempory, Jackylyn Bilton (right).

SYDNEY SECONDARY COLLEGE

Students of the Support Units at Balmain Campus and Blackwattle Bay Campus, Sydney Secondary College, are having a great time in Visual Arts.
They are excited and enjoying creating a vibrant diversity of colourful artwork, using paints donated by Matisse Derivan.
The Governor, Marie Bashir, has one of their paintings and four also hang in NSW Parliamentary offices and the students have also exhibited at the Newtown Arts Festival, Walking the Streets.
The enthusiasm of the students and the quality of their work has certainly increased with the new flood of colours available to them.

SYDNEY ROYAL EASTER SHOW

Each year Matisse Derivan sponsor free children's painting competition at the Royal Easter Show - here are the winners from 2005.

Sydney Esquisse

Brolga Peace Panel

Starlight Children's Foundation

Tap Gallery International Exhibition

Waverley Art Prize

Gin Gin Annual Art Exhibition

Kids Day Out - Royal Children Hospital Cancer Kids

Amnesty International - Cross Exhibition

Memory Box Program

Sydney Body Art Ride