Matisse Derivan - Proudly Australian Owned and Made
COMMUNITY SPONSORSHIP 2007
These are the some of the projects that Matisse Derivan sponsored prior to 2008:
The City of Canada Bay Council Sustainability Awards 2007
These awards were made 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.
"images of the Cross" art prize, at tap gallery
Graeme Weinard is this year’s winner of “IMAGES OF THE CROSS” art prize sponsored by Matisse Derivan at the TAP Gallery
Matisse/Artists’ Store Artstreet award
Jesse congratulates John Borden from Lithgow High School on his win.
Footprints in the Park
Recently, Dimity Williams from Families Facing Climate Change invited local children to make a communal footprint canvas collage as a statement of community concern regarding climate change and presented it to Mr Peter Costello their local MP. Matisse Derivan donated the paint for this unique project.
Miniature Art Society exhibition.
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.
Royal Easter Show
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.
Waverley Art Prize
 Every year, Matisse Derivan sponsors the Waverley Art Prize Awards in the Acrylic section. Below is Cheryl Richardson’s winning entry in 2007, ‘The Pathway’ . Congratulations Cheryl and all other winners.
Tafe Nepean College
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!
Bare Facts
 Bare Facts is a major fundraising initiative, which raised nearly $30,000 for Can Assist in 2006, to help regional families dealing with cancer in the Yass Valley Shire.
Yass is a township only 30 minutes drive from the nation’s capital, Canberra, and on Saturday 26th of May 2007, six very different artists and six models (3 couples) gathered at the old 1860’s Oddfellow’s Hall to create artworks that will feature on a couple of pages in the new calendar. The body paint used was supplied by Matisse Derivan and the paint’s namesake, foremost Australian body artist Tim Gratton, was on hand to offer advice and to just generally join in the spirit of the occasion.
Calendars can be obtained online at www.yasscalendar.com .
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 HOsPITALS
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
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
Redcliffe 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
“Reveal” was launched in
Youth Week April 2007.
BREAST CANCER AUSTRALIA
BREAST CANCER AUSTRALIA is
benefiting 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.
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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. |
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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 Contemporary, Jackylyn Bilton (right). |
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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. |
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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. |
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Sydney Esquisse |
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Brolga Peace Panel |
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Starlight Children's Foundation |
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Tap Gallery International Exhibition |
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Waverley Art Prize |
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Gin Gin Annual Art Exhibition |
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Kids Day Out - Royal Children Hospital Cancer Kids |
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Amnesty International - Cross Exhibition |
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Memory Box Program |
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Sydney Body Art Ride |
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