Hi, I’m Matisse.
Yup, just like the artist. Last name, Walkden-Brown.

WHO AM I?

I am a journalist by education. A campaigner by occupation. A storyteller by practice and personality. I am a mother, wife, daughter, sister, and friend. I am a terrible cook. I am a kid who grew up in a backpackers resort in Fiji. A kid who never really grew up at all. A (very) ex-model. A reader. A writer. I watch a lot of television. I make up some stories. Some of them I share.

WHAT DO I DO?

I do a few things. I run a communications agency, that helps teams create great impact campaigns. It’s called Good Form Media. We even made a super cool software to simplify all things impact strategy. It’s called Formmity.

I also run a creative club for kids, of all ages. It’s called Little Mountains. I share my scribbles on how to find magic in this wild and woolly world, while eating maggi noodles, on my Substack, Field Notes Of a Silly Girl.

WHY DO I DO IT?

I’m kind of obsessed with culture. In other words, how we collectively do what we do. Culture is the atmosphere we all live and breathe but often forget to see. Like fish with water. It just so happens that stories are the main propagators of culture. So I’m a story-obsessed-girly too. I love stories that contribute to the sort of culture I want to leave behind. The kind that breed a buzzing kind of joy, creativity and juvenescent spirit. I reckon that’s the good stuff (and so do a lot academic studies).

All in all, I am a storymaker and storyshaper, working with both the stories the world needs, and the ones that simply remind us how good it feels to be alive. Almost everything I do begins with some version of the question “so kid, what do you really want to say, and how do you want to say it?“