Many thanks to our sponsor Pictureproducts, all our entrants and the VAP 2025 Judge, Artist, Michael Maratea!
Note: this list shows the Volcano Art Prize (VAP) 2025 entries, in the approximate order that they appeared on the website https://volcanoartprize.com/
(see the LID or LEAD Group Library Identification number preceding each image below) when the VAP 2025 Judge, Michael, judged them. ( ….. read more )
Note: this list shows the Volcano Art Prize (VAP) 2024 entries, in the approximate order that they appeared on the website (see the number preceding each image below) when the VAP 2024 Judge, “Skip”, judged them. Skip’s high commendations and decisions on the Joint First Prize winners of the $400 ($200 each) cash prize, and the winners of the 30 Pictureproducts mugs from our sponsor , have been marked on this list.
Due to a glitch in the Facebook Likes buttons on www.volcanoartprize.com this year, the winner of the People’s Choice cash prize of $200 will be announced later this year once entrants have had a chance to ask their networks to vote (now that the Thumbs Up logo at the top of feach entry page is fixed! ….. more
Once you’ve signed the Petition, please share this blog post or the petition link or our video or any of the other links below, by any means, with all your contacts.
The Petition is signable until 11:59pm (AEDT) on Weds 4th Dec 2024 and will be presented to Parliament if there are 50 or more signatures.
Click the link to sign – https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6714
or go to https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/ and search for circular
Petition Details
Petition Address
To the Hon. Speaker of the House of Representatives and Members of the House of Representatives, Australia
Petition Of
Certain citizens of Australia
Petition Title
Circular Economy for Lead
Petition Reason
Australia is the world’s largest lead (ore/concentrate) exporter – often to countries with lax controls on shipping, smelting, refining, manufacturing and recycling, allowing the continuing flow of Australian lead into cheap products that’re banned here (like lead paint, toxic Ayurvedic medicines/spices/cosmetics); and into footpath/backyard/kitchen recycling (including by children). The annual global cost of lead exposure is US$6 trillion (2019) – 7% of global GDP. A moratorium on all new ‘lead mines’ (where lead is the highest tonnage metal) especially ‘greenfield’ projects like Bowdens, will prevent land and water contamination of agricultural/grazing land/indigenous sites and reduce water, fossil-fuel and infrastructure requirements. ‘Mining’ existing lead from the built environment; and incentivising householders to replace lead with non-lead flashing, especially on rainwater collection roof areas; and industry to collect, transport and recycle lead radiation shielding, weights, pewter, brass, solder, spent ammunition along with used lead acid batteries; and to manufacture new lead acid batteries from 100% recycled lead; and ‘export’ lead ingots with the technology/policy to assist other countries to achieve lead circularity, will obviate the need for newly-mined lead, create a smarter world (more capable of solving the climate crisis), and create a lead-safe and climate-safe planet for future generations. Petition Request We therefore ask the House to create lead circularity: commit to a moratorium on all new mine projects where lead is the major mine product by weight, and incentivize ‘mining’ the built environment and waste-streams for lead; manufacturing new lead acid batteries from 100% recycled-lead; and exporting lead ingots, and lead-safety technologies/knowledge.
Principal Petitioner Information
Name: Elizabeth O’Brien, The LEAD Group Inc charity
Email: info@lead.org.au
Phone: 0297160014
You’ll need to TICK: I declare that I am a resident or citizen of Australia and I am not a current Member of the House of Representatives. And TICK I agree to abide by the terms and conditions of use for petitions. FULL EXPLANATION BEHIND THE PETITION
Petition Reason
To the Honourable Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives, given that Australia is the world’s largest lead (ore and concentrate) exporter and that the annual global financial cost of lead exposure was US$6 trillion in 2019 – equivalent to 7% of global GDP – Australia needs to become the world’s first circular economy for lead and then export the technology and policy to assist Australian lead-importing and other countries to achieve lead circularity. We, the undersigned, urgently petition the House to begin by ending lead mining in Australia and especially “greenfield” lead mining which is not green but rather new mining proposed in areas which have not been mined before. We call upon the Federal Minister for Environment and Water to commit to a moratorium on all new ‘lead mine’ projects and to incentivise industry to manufacture new lead acid batteries from 100% recycled lead, and to ‘mine’ existing lead from the built environment and the community. We petition the Minister to end the approval of all new ‘lead mine’ proposals including any mine proposal where the major tonnage of metal to be extracted will be lead. Such proposals are often presented as ‘silver mine’, ‘gold mine’, ‘tin mine’, ‘zinc mine’, etc but should be required to name the proposal as a ‘lead mine’. For instance, ‘Bowdens Silver’ mine is proposed/estimated to produce 90 times more lead than silver and will destroy agricultural/grazing land, tourism and indigenous sites and place a too-heavy burden on water use and fossil-fuel use to create infrastructure for the construction, operation and ore transport out-of-state. We further ask the Minister to incentivise householders to safely replace lead flashing with non-lead flashing, especially on rainwater collection roof areas, and incentivize industry to safely collect, transport and recycle previously-mined lead, such as lead flashing, radiation shielding lead sheet, lead weights, pewter, brass, solder, spent ammunition along with used lead acid batteries and other leaded wastes like removed lead paint waste, lead-contaminated building void dusts, soil and sediments. The need for newly-mined lead (and other metals found with lead in these recyclables) will be obviated, populations will be smarter (therefore potentially more able to solve the climate crisis), and the Australian and global environment will be lead-safe and climate-safe for future generations.
Petition Request
We therefore ask the House to take the first step towards a national circular economy for lead (the toxic heavy metal) and commit to a moratorium on all new mine projects where the major mine product by weight will be lead (whether it is proposed as a ‘lead mine’ or ‘silver mine’, ‘gold mine’, ‘tin mine’, ‘zinc mine’, etc) and instead incentivize ‘mining’ the built environment and waste-streams for lead and any other metals found with lead in lead-containing products and wastes, and the technological improvements to enable all leaded products/wastes (not just used lead acid batteries) to be collected and recycled safely and to be manufactured (both here and overseas) into lead acid batteries made from 100% recycled-lead ingots and with the target of replacing all Australian lead ore or concentrate exports with lead ingots, in order to avoid lax shipping, smelting and refining controls and the continuing escape of Australian lead into street recycling by children and black markets in non-OECD-importing countries.
COPY THIS BRIEF REQUEST IF TEXTING THE LINK
Please sign The LEAD Group’s Petition for Australia to create a Circular Economy for Lead
Once you’ve signed the Petition, please share the Circular Economy for Lead petition link with all your contacts.
The Petition is signable until 11:59pm (AEDT) on Weds 4th Dec 2024 and will be presented to Parliament if there are 50 or more signatures.
Click the link to sign – https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6714
or go to https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/ and search for circular
OTHER WAYS TO SHARE THE PETITION LINK – SHARE ANY OF THESE LINKS BY ANY MEANS POSSIBLE
PLEASE SHARE THIS POST!
Calling all Australian voters! Please sign The LEAD Group’s Petition to ask the government to create a Circular Economy for Lead. It only takes a minute so do it today and share the link with everyone you know, at https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6714
Artist: Phoenix Jewson, Age: 5. Home-school. “Phoenix Makes a Volcano”.
Lead-Safety Message: No one can stop lead fumes spewing out of a volcano, but people who can vote, can sign Grandma Lead’s Petition EN6714 – Circular Economy for Lead. Then we might just be able to stop new lead mines sending Australian lead out in to the world. Please Sign the petition at https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6714 before it closes on Wed 04 Dec 2024 11:59 PM (AEDT).
Description of Work: Mummy and my magpie Chough helped me make a volcano out of clay, food dye, vinegar and bicarb soda while the video was recording on her iPhone and mummy edited it.
Click the image at https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/phoenix-makes-a-volcano/ to watch the very short “Phoenix Makes a Volcano” video at:
https://volcanoartprize.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Phoenix-Makes-a-Volcano.mp4 ;
Watch the very short video also at following webpages: https://youtu.be/-vAgJtJontE ,
https://www.facebook.com/LeadSafeWorld/videos/4040873666143427,
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/X5d1jNnLmxwFuEQN
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/zWbEkS9Jrzti26VY
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/pu1rYVi2tdseGDkL
https://www.instagram.com/p/DCTeKaty5Ac/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
PLEASE SHARE THIS POST! 
Calling all Australian voters! Please sign The LEAD Group’s Petition to ask the government to create a Circular Economy for Lead. It only takes a minute so do it today and share the link with everyone you know, at https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6714
Please share this post at following links:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/fZ2jGYQTAYwCML6s,
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/RktFZANJYnyrfMTw,
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/uKX3KTiTPGB8hZzj,
https://www.instagram.com/p/DCWmlSsyMRz/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link,
PLEASE SHARE THIS POST!
Calling all Australian voters! Please sign The LEAD Group’s Petition to ask the government to create a Circular Economy for Lead. It only takes a minute so do it today and share the link with everyone you know, at https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6714
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien Title: pXRF Bone Lead Testing
Lead Safety Message: #Grandma Lead says: In our lead safe future, everyone will have access to bone lead testing by portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) using a Niton XL3t GOLDD+ (made by Thermo-Fisher Scientific, USA). And all earthlings should have less lead in our bones if Australian registered voters sign the Circular Economy for Lead Petition EN6714.
Petition EN6714 is at https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6714 until Wed 04 Dec 2024 11:59 PM (AEDT).
Please share this post at following links: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/pxrf-bone-lead-testing/ and https://www.linkedin.com/posts/elizabeth-o-brien-92496454_grandma-leadsafecommunity-leadsafe-activity-7263159183540183040-jg92?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
PLEASE SHARE THIS POST!
Calling all Australian voters! Please sign The LEAD Group’s Petition to ask the government to create a Circular Economy for Lead. It only takes a minute so do it today and share the link with everyone you know, at https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6714
Artist: Zoe Lu. Age: 7.
School: Creative Einstein
Title: Panda
Lead-Safety Message: Lead exposure bad. Lead-safety good. Its as black and white as a panda.
Sign Grandma Lead’s Petition EN6714 – Circular Economy for Lead to keep Australian lead in the ground where it is safe. Go to https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6714 before it closes on Wed 04 Dec 2024 11:59 PM (AEDT).https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/panda/
Please share this post at following links:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/3zBZBNedrRc1rXdB/
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/eJaA4Y6fXikqNeLi
https://www.instagram.com/p/DCeKhOfy_t4/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
PLEASE SHARE THIS POST!
Calling all Australian voters! Please sign The LEAD Group’s Petition to ask the government to create a Circular Economy for Lead. It only takes a minute so do it today and share the link with everyone you know, at https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6714
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien
Title: Lue Water Protection Ceremony
Lead-Safety Message: Grandma Lead was inspired by this first nations protection of the waters ceremony at Lue, the site of Bowdens proposed lead mine on a very rainy day on 4th Oct 2023, to create the Petition EN6714 – Circular Economy for Lead to stop new lead mines being approved. Please Sign the petition at https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6714 before it closes on Wed 04 Dec 2024 11:59 PM (AEDT).
Description of Work: Collage of selfie & iphone 13 photos from Lue, near Mudgee, NSW.
Please share this post at following links:
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/lue-water-protection-ceremony/
https://www.instagram.com/p/DCjPDwiyq2V/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/Mf2NeQSrfXswcgnn
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/N7D9qVUTUJQ5p5vt
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/WhR6Fb2xHfoLT
PLEASE SHARE THIS POST!
Calling all Australian voters! Please sign The LEAD Group’s Petition to ask the government to create a Circular Economy for Lead. It only takes a minute so do it today and share the link with everyone you know, at https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6714
Lead-Safety Message: 1. Strip old paint safely 2. Recycle lead paint waste. 3. Make lead acid batteries from 100% recycled lead. These are some of the steps towards a Circular Economy for Lead. If you’re an Australian voter, please sign my Petition EN6714 at https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6714 before it closes on Wed 04 Dec 2024 11:59 PM (AEDT)
Description of Work: iPhone 13 photo
Please share this post at following links:
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/lead-paint-recycling/
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/vH6DdCjAtnii8gF2/
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/Di1jUqrFHqLX82U4/
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/GGK8vae9fQ6aZ54c/
https://www.instagram.com/p/DClKTMeyHOj/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
PLEASE SHARE THIS POST!
Calling all Australian voters! Please sign The LEAD Group’s Petition to ask the government to create a Circular Economy for Lead. It only takes a minute so do it today and share the link with everyone you know, at https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6714
Artist: Jenny Rowbotham
Title: Broken Hill Lead Dust
Please share this post at following links:
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/broken-hill-lead-dust/
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/kwwZjuGXniY5qjbg
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/LcrypAb9iF9ERSTY
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/h2oJ3TzmCEFbReT5
https://www.instagram.com/p/DCnpRAAS4Xm/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
PLEASE SHARE THIS POST!
Calling all Australian voters! Please sign The LEAD Group’s Petition to ask the government to create a Circular Economy for Lead. It only takes a minute so do it today and share the link with everyone you know, at https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6714
Please share this post at following links:
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/vyuDPimuqw89MaMb
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/Jq7sNBMRDEThmCXZ
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/mWA4e8tTafWgDkg3
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCqSz8GxNd3/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Many thanks to our sponsor 
, all our entrants and the VAP 2021 Judge, James Wood!
[Also online at https://leadsafeworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/LANv22n3-Lead-Action-Week-Retrospective.pdf ]
Note: this list shows the Volcano Art Prize (VAP) 2021 entries, in the order that they appeared on the website (see the number preceding each image below) when the VAP 2021 Judge, James Wood, judged them. James’ comments, high commendations and decisions on the First Prize winner of the $400 cash prize, and the winners of the 30 Pictureproducts mugs from our sponsor , as well as the winner of the People’s Choice cash prize of $200 have been marked as appropriate on this list.
1.
Artist: Claire Leight
Title: Lead free playground
Lead-Safety Message: Take your kids to the ocean – there is no lead in sand.
Description of work: iPhone photo
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/lead-free-playground/
2. mug winner!
Artist: Leanne Norwood
Title: Fight to keep your community safe from lead
Lead-Safety Message: Fight to keep your community safe from lead
Description of Work: photo
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/fight-to-keep-your-community-safe-from-lead/
3. mug winner!
Artist: Leanne Norwood
Title: Fight for a lead sustainable future
Lead-Safety Message: Fight for a lead sustainable future
Description of Work: photo with label
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/fight-for-a-lead-sustainable-future/
4. Highly commended – mug winner!
Artist: Ananda Card
Title: Not what you’d think
Lead-Safety Message: There’s no way to know if soil is safe without testing it.
Description of Work: Image created with iPhone and apps
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/not-what-youd-think/
5. mug winner!
Artist: Maddison Taylor, Age: 12 years
Title: Spider Monkey
Lead-Safety Message: Look out for lead – its all around us.
Description of work: Creative PL Artist Collection graphite drawing pencils on paper.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/spider-monkey/
6.
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien
Title: Keep kids lead safe rule
Lead-Safety Message: Just as “don’t eat mushrooms unless an expert tells you’re they’re not poisonous” is a good rule, so “Keep kids lead safe” is a good rule for life.
Description of Work: iPhone photos collaged in Word and saved and resized in Paint
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/keep-kids-lead-safe-rule/
7.
Artist: Claire Leight
Title: Noela Whitton and Elizabeth O’Brien
Lead-Safety Message: Two generations campaigning to remove lead from the world.
Description of Work: Timer iPhone photo with photo of Glebe Tram Sheds wall art collaged in Word and Paint
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/noela-whitton-and-elizabeth-obrien/
8. Highly commended – mug winner!
Artist: Dennis Leight
Title: Two planes
Lead-Safety Message: Aviation Fuel – The Last Lead Frontier
Description of Work: Photo Montage
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/two-planes/
9. mug winner!
Artist: Shristi Lohani
Title: Give her wings to fly in a lead safe world!
Lead-Safety Message: Stones, paving and grass all make excellent barriers to protect young children from any lead that might be in the soil.
Description of Work: Digital photo, flipped and mirrored in Paint.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/give-her-wings-to-fly-in-a-lead-safe-world/
10. mug winner!
Artist: Shristi Lohani
Title: Beware of the lead paint in kids toys
Lead-Safety Message: Let’s be careful we are not handing lead painted toys to our kids
Description of Work: Digital photo.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/beware-of-the-lead-paint-in-kids-toys/
11. mug winner!
Artists: Francis, Berkeley and Rosemary Card. Ages: 5, 3, 1
Title: Superheroes in a Leaded World
Lead-Safety Message: Teaching our kids to overcome their exposures and be ambassadors of a safer world to come
Description of Work: Iphone photos + PicsArt app
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/superheroes-in-a-leaded-world/
12.
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien
Title: Vale Noela Whitton
Lead-Safety Message: My mother raised me to love art which inspired me to create Volcano Art Prize (VAP). I hope my mother’s VAP entries inspire other people to create art and lead awareness into their 90s too. Description of Work: Noela Whitton’s VAP entries collaged using Word and Paint
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/vale-noela-whitton/
13.
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien.
Title: Burned car.
Lead-Safety Message: Burning a car beside the road or anywhere should be illegal. Even if the leaded steel fuel tank doesn’t explode, the air pollution is highly toxic and molten lead and ash from the lead acid battery, radiator, vibration dampening, waste oil, paint, foam seats, interior plastics, etc, will remain on the soil until collected and taken to a hazardous waste dump.
Description of Work: iPhone 8 photos collaged using Word and Paint.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/burned-car/
14. mug winner! Judge’s comment: Wakaflex was introduced to Oz circa 2004.
Artist: Jason Fargie
Title: Beware Lead Flashing on Your Roof
Lead-Safety Message: Replace lead flashing with non-lead flashing like Wakaflex, in order to reduce lead in rainwater and stormwater.
Description of work: Mobile phone photos collaged together in Paint. URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/beware-lead-flashing-on-your-roof/
15.
Artist: Claire Leight
Title of Image: Lead is Scary
Lead-Safety Message: Lead is SCARY and it contaminates many of these “Fun Things”
Description of Work: Iphone Photo
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/lead-is-scary/
16. mug winner!
Artist: Lyndal Davies
Title: Lightning strikes
Lead-Safety Message: When lead contamination affects your family, it’s like being struck by Lightning.
Description of work: Photo taken with an Olympus OMD-EM1 Camera.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/lightning-strikes/
17.
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien
Title: Why is lead mandatory in Oz Propolis?
Lead-Safety Message: You can advocate to stop the Australian Poisons Standard permitting lead in “Propolis products” (which states lead is “mandatory”) at https://www.tga.gov.au/form/application-amend-poisons-standard or at least ensure lead is required to be listed as an ingredient.
Description of Work: iPhone 8 photos collaged using Powerpoint. URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/why-is-lead-mandatory-in-oz-propolis/
18.
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien
Title: Better to go grey than be leaded
Lead-Safety Message: You can advocate to stop the Australian Poisons Standard permitting lead in “hair cosmetics” (hair-colour-restorers which turn grey hair/beards black) at https://www.tga.gov.au/form/application-amend-poisons-standard
Description of Work: iPhone 8 photo. URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/better-to-go-grey-than-be-leaded/
19. mug winner!
Artist: Jo Lia.
Title: DIY Bathtub Disaster.
Lead-Safety Message: Lead – Often found where you least expect it. The LEAD Group recommends children not touch dusty surfaces with more than 12 ug/m2 lead but this bath had a dust wipe result of 3200 ug/m2 lead when I collected the sample using a LEAD Group Kit. URL of short film: https://youtu.be/kvaF8ExB79s
Description of Work: Video – short film uploaded on YouTube.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/diy-bathtub-disaster/
20. mug winner!
Artist: Alex Jewson
Title: We’re growing beans, carrots and basil
Lead-Safety Message: I already know that I have to wash the garden soil off my hands before I help mummy make my favourite chilli basil chicken!
Description of work: iPhone photo
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/were-growing-beans-carrots-and-basil/
21. mug winner!
Artist: Gary Keller
Title: Where toddlers go to cut their teeth on lead
Lead-Safety Message: Lead emissions from general aviation planes at Reid-Hillview Airport have raised the blood lead levels of children living close-by, and prompted local authorities to propose closing down the airport – which will be the world’s first airport closure due to lead.
Description of Work: Photos made in to a poster.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/where-toddlers-go-to-cut-their-teeth-on-lead/
22.
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien
Title: Most piston-engine planes can use non-leaded fuel.
Lead-safety Message: Nearly 70% of US piston-engine aircraft can use unleaded MOGAS or MOGAS-alternative eg 82UL while 30% of US general aviation aircraft can potentially use AGE85, an ethanol-based fuel.
Description of work: China wax pencil, recycled highlighter, lead pencil on a 70/30% background made with Derwent Aquarelle pencils. URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/most-piston-engine-planes-can-use-non-leaded-fuel/
23. Highly commended – mug winner!
Artist: Joseph Lee.
Title: There’s no leaded pigments in computer art!
Lead-Safety Message: As of 1st October 2021 paint with more than 90 ppm lead can no longer be sold in Australia. Exceptions: anti-fouling & anti-corrosion paints can contain 1000 ppm lead until 1st October 2023; adult’s artists paints can contain any amount of lead with no phase-out date planned.
Description of Work: Selfies taken on OnePlus Nord android mobile phone camera, modified and panelled in Picas (art photo/picture filter Android app), flipped and collaged using Paint.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/theres-no-leaded-pigments-in-computer-art/
24. mug winner!
Artist: Leo Manttan.
Age: 2 years
Title: Toddlers and toxics don’t mix
Lead-safety message: In Australia, the Mandatory Toy Standard ensures that all art and craft supplies intended for use by children under 12 years of age are non-toxic. All countries need similar standards or legislation.
Description of Work: Drawing with non-toxic texta on paper. URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/toddlers-and-toxics-dont-mix/
25. mug winner!
Artist: Lucinda Curran.
Title: Supporting Detoxification.
Lead-Safety Message: Our bodies are designed to remove toxicants, such as lead. However, in the presence of stress, our ability to detoxify reduces. A bit like a seesaw, as stress increases, detoxification decreases. And as stress decreases, detoxification increases. Sound Healing triggers the relaxation response, which therefore supports our natural healing abilities by reducing stress. This can also help our bodies reduce toxic load and may be useful in reducing lead levels.
Description of Work: Digital Art. URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/supporting-detoxification/
26. mug winner!
Artist: Tim Pye
Title: It’s Everywhere
Lead-Safety Message: It can seem lead is everywhere, but let’s fix the worst first.
Description of Work: Shoe polish on a cupboard door post-processed with Adobe Lightroom.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/its-everywhere/
27. mug winner!
Artist: Helen Hao.
Age: 8
Title: Blue Mountains
LEAD-Safety Message: Because trees take up lead from the soil, bushfire smoke from the Black Summer bushfires in the Blue Mountains added lead to Sydney soil, dust and sediments.
School: Creative Einstein
Description of work: Coloured pencil drawing
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/blue-mountains/
28. Highly commended – mug winner!
Artist: Helen Hao.
Age: 8
Title: A fish called Pumpkin
LEAD-Safety Message: Pumpkin is thinking: I wish my owner filled my tank from a stainless steel tap, not a brass tap, so my water was pure and lead-free like where I was born.
School: Creative Einstein
Description of work: Coloured pencil drawing
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/a-fish-called-pumpkin/
29. mug winner!
Artist: Helen Hao
Age: 8
Title: Bunny
LEAD-Safety Message: We can protect all our pets from lead-contaminated soil by testing soil for lead with a LEAD Group Kit then replacing the soil if needed.
School: Creative Einstein
Description of work: Coloured pencil drawing
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/bunny/
30. mug winner!
Artist: Christopher Nguyen
Age: 10
Title: Beware lead in volcano ash
LEAD-Safety Message: The ash and smoke from volcanoes can contain as much lead as the lava. When leaded AvGas is banned and lead industry emissions are reduced, volcanoes will again become the major source of lead in the earth’s atmosphere.
School: Creative Einstein. Description of work: Computer art.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/beware-lead-in-volcano-ash/
31. Highly commended – mug winner!
Artist: Aurelia Jeffrey
Age: 11
Title: Tawny Frogmouth
LEAD-Safety Message: A wise tawny frogmouth doesn’t eat any lead-contaminated soil when they eat worms, slugs, snails, bugs, beetles, wasps, ants, centipedes, millipedes, and scorpions found on the ground.
School: Creative Einstein. Description of work: Charcoal drawing
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/tawny-frogmouth/
32. Highly commended – mug winner!
Artist: Liza Tripathi
Age: 10
Title: I choose to live on a healthy planet
LEAD-Safety Message: The survival of the human race depends on everyone choosing a bank and superannuation fund that does not invest in polluting industries, lead mining, fossil fuels, overfishing or deforestation.
School: Creative Einstein
Description of work: Non-toxic water colour on acid-free paper
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/i-choose-to-live-on-a-healthy-planet/
33. First Prize Winner!! And mug winner! Judge’s comment: provides a powerful message and simple but powerful drawing.
Artist: Liza Tripathi
Age: 10
Title: Earth is our only home
LEAD-Safety Message: Planet earth needs our protection. I’m dreaming of planting billions of trees, having a sunset clause on all leaded products to phase them out, and the end of burning fossil fuels.
School: Creative Einstein
Description of work: Non-toxic water colour on acid-free paper
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/earth-is-our-only-home/
34. mug winner
Artist: Liza Tripathi
Age: 10
Title: A treehouse on my mind
LEAD-Safety Message: Whether you’re dreaming of re-painting your treehouse or your home, always test for lead first and don’t ever dry-sand lead paint!
School: Creative Einstein
Description of work: Non-toxic water colour and lead pencil on acid-free paper
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/a-treehouse-on-my-mind/
35. mug winner
Artist: Kiara Nguyen
Age: 9
Title: Through my eyes
LEAD-Safety Message: Only eat cooked wild mushrooms if an adult expert identifies them as edible. Don’t eat any mushrooms found growing in city soil which could be lead-contaminated.
School: Creative Einstein
Description of work: Non-toxic water colour on acid-free paper
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/through-my-eyes/
36. mug winner
Artist: Liza Tripathi
Age: 10
Title: Help me! Please! Healthy! Clean!
LEAD-Safety Message: Our planet needs us to stop burning fossil fuels, to have all the leaded dust, soil and sediments cleaned up to increase biodiversity and help us be smart enough to reverse climate change.
School: Creative Einstein.
Description of work: Non-toxic water colour on acid-free paper. URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/help-me-please-healthy-clean/
37. Highly commended!
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien
Title of Image: Celebration of the end of the 100 year reign of Leaded Petrol globally
Lead-Safety Message: After 35 Years, Global Leaded Petrol Phaseout which began in Japan in 1986 has finally ended in Algeria in July 2021. Next phaseout required: Leaded Aviation Fuel!
Description of Work: Collage (made in Paint) of progressive highlighter drawing dedicated to Noela Whitton.
38. mug winner
Artist: Rose Lennon
Age: 7
Title: Women protesting against polluting vehicle fuels
Lead-Safety Message: In the mid-1990s I drew this when The LEAD Group was campaigning to ban leaded petrol so that every mother could spend less time cleaning up lead dust and more time playing with their children.
Description of Work: Pen drawing.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/3388/
39. mug winner
Artist: Monika Mangal.
Title: Switch your Lead Lipstick to Lead free.
Lead-Safety Message: I’ve Switched my “Maybelline” Lipstick to natural “Urban color London” Lipstick and other Lead cosmetics to Lead free cosmetics at right time. Lead and other trace metals may be found in many lipsticks, these occur naturally and can accidentally contaminate other ingredients during production. As contaminants are not added intentionally they will not be listed as ingredients. But it’s good to change it over the period of time. The lead levels ranged from 0.09 to 3.06 ppm, with the highest levels found in lipsticks made by Cover Girl, L’Oreal, and Revlon, Maybelline.
Description of Work: clicked by iphone xr.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/switch-your-lead-contained-lipstick-to-lead-free/
40. Highly commended!
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien.
Title: Lead and Webs are Silent Invisible Killers
Lead-Safety Message: When a cicada is caught in an invisible web, it struggles loudly until the spider kills it. But when lead kills, mostly, neither the patient nor the doctors know the cause of death. Lead poisoning is a silent invisible killer.
Description of Work: iPhone9 Photos collaged in Powerpoint & Paint
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/lead-and-webs-are-silent-invisible-killers/
41. People’s Choice Winner! Congratulations Faridah for getting the most Facebook Likes thus raising more lead-awareness than any other entry in VAP 2021! mug winner!
Artist: Faridah Hussein Were
Title: Lead Exposure during Informal Automobile Painting Activities
Lead-Safety Message: Ban use of lead in automobile paint to protect human health and environment
School Name: Chemistry Department, University of Nairobi
Description of Work: This is one of the power point presentations in the virtual East African Community workshop during the International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week of Action on 29th October 2020. The photo depicts preparation of lead painted automobile metal surfaces through sanding in open garages in residential areas. These activities result in substantial exposure to the environment, workers and communities in the vicinities. Research was also carried out and found that the automobile paints sold in the nearby retail shops had markedly high levels of lead that exceeded the 90 ppm limit set by the East African Paint and Allied Product Standards. The photo justifies why export, import, use or sale of lead in automobile paints should be banned across the region by enforcing the East African Paint Standards of 90 ppm maximum total lead in paint.
12th April 1997
By Melissa Sweet, Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) [not found online on 18th November 2024]
After years of trying to convince local authorities that the dust blowing off uncovered rail wagons near her house was making her children sick, Ms Jenny Rowbotham bought a camera.
The pictures she took from her backyard provide dramatic evidence that large clouds of dust have blown across housing from the uncovered rail wagons that take lead and zinc concentrate out of Broken Hill to Port Pirie.
Ms Rowbotham says that 70 children under 12 live in the two blocks bordering the railway line near her home in Gaffney Street, and many suffer serious health problems.
She said yesterday that the company responsible, Pasminco Broken Hill Mine, had been promising for more than a year to cover the wagons but they were still open and a threat to children’s health.
A company spokeswoman, Ms Christine Ellis, said she understood concerns that the program to cover the wagons had taken so long but it had been a massive project, costing $3 million and requiring the design and manufacture of 250 large fiberglass covers and the modification of rail wagons. They would be covered by the end of May [1997], she said.
But this has come too late for Ms Rowbotham, who recently moved out of her home of 13 years into rented accommodation far from the railway. And she said it is too late for her sons, Travis, 7, Matthew, 10, and Jason, 12, who have grown up with high blood lead levels and suffering regular nose-bleeds, stomach pain and headaches.
Travis and Matthew are also being treated for behavioural problems and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, which are associated with high lead levels. “The headmaster has said Travis would be the worst behaved child in the school,” Ms Rowbotham said.
Because the children are older than five, the family are not entitled to the free environmental assessment and decontamination program provided by the Broken Hill Environmental Lead Centre, and have spent thousands of dollars trying to seal their house from the dust.
The centre’s project manager, Mr Bill Balding, said there was no evidence that Gaffney Street had been more severely affected by lead poisoning than other areas of Broken Hill. There was a stronger association between blood levels and a house’s condition than with its location, he said.
A mines inspector with the Department of Mineral Resources, Mr Stan Goodman, declined to comment on the health implications of the railway dust but said Pasminco has probably incurred financial losses from material being blown off its trucks.
“Pasminco has been as big a loser as anybody for what they have lost off the trucks,” he said.
Volcano Art Prize (VAP) is an annual digital art competition for environmental art organised by The LEAD Group – an environmental health charity – in which winning entrants will be awarded with cash prizes or mugs printed with their own image by our sponsor Pictureproducts.
Prizes
1. The 2020 Judge Awarded Winner will win double the value of the Peoples Choice Award. Volcano Art Prize 2020 – open now until midnight – the peoples choice award will be $200 and the judges choice award will be $400. Including 30 following mug winners.
3. All entrants’ works will be accessioned into The LEAD Group Art Collection and will have their work archived at https://volcanoartprize.com/vap-archive
4. 30 winners decided by the Judge will be given the option to have their own entry, or another entrant’s entry, printed on a Pictureproducts mug – either white ceramic or white plastic – with the VAP logo.
5. The peoples choice winner will receive a cash prize.
The peoples choice winner is received by likes on Facebook. Please go to the selected peoples choice art and click a ‘like’ on a entry you love. Voting for the Peoples Choice prize ends 20/10/2020 Tuesday at midnight.
Highlight the selected URL link below to select the following Volcano Choice Prize in Facebook. (There is no limit to how many entries you can vote for).
Or feel free to click the subheading under ‘Peoples Choice’. Like your favourite entry of 2020 (there are 6 pages directed at the bottom).
Link to Voting:
URL: https://lead.org.au/lanv21n1/LANv21n1-14.pdf
Volcano Art Prize (VAP) 2019 received 74 entries from children as young as 5 to adults as old as 89! Entries were received from Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America and Zambia.
VAP 2020 is open now so please enter your landscape-orientation (not portrait-orientation) 1-3MB images or short films at www.volcanoartprize.com to be in the running for one of 30 beautiful Pictureproducts Blue ceramic mugs, the People’s Choice cash prize of $200 and the Judge’s First Prize of $400! Adults from OECD countries pay only $10 to enter but all other adults and all children enter for free. All child entrants also receive a Winner Certificate or Participant Certificate with their entry and Lead-safety Message printed on it.
VAP 2019 Winners were announced at The LEAD Group’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) held by Skype between attendees in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom on 24th October 2019. The VAP 2019 Winners announcement was the first of two LEAD Group events held during the 7th International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week of Action (ILPPWA).
The People’s Choice $200 cash prize was awarded to the entry with the most Facebook Likes.
The Judge* awarded a First Prize of $400 to the best overall entry, then listed the twenty best Lead-Safety Messages, and chose the 30 best images to win a ceramic mug printed with their image from our wonderful sponsor Pictureproducts Blue.
Thanks very much to the 2019 VAP judge! Seventy-four 2019 VAP entries (see below) have been judged by Kelly Abeleven, a Building Biologist of Building Biology NSW, who is currently the President of the the Australasian Society of Building Biologists (ASBB).
Winner of the Volcano Art Prize 2019 People’s Choice Award
Artist’s Name: Gianna Marie Nobin, aged 5
Title of Image: A Beautiful Nature
Lead-Safety Message: Recycle Reuse
School Name: St Christopher Catholic Primary School
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/a-beautiful-nature/
Winner of the Volcano Art Prize 2019 Judge’s First Prize
Artist: William Nguyen, aged 11
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Elephants Marching in Sunset
Lead-Safety Message: Lead poisoning of elephants is a possible cause of Floppy trunk syndrome, which may not be reversible.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/elephants-marching-in-sunset/
The Judge’s list of the twenty best Volcano Art Prize 2019
Lead-Safety Messages
Note that children are permitted to receive help from adults in writing their Lead-safety message.
1.
Artist: Mark Ju, aged 13
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Ear & Nose
Lead-Safety Message: Hear this: if you eat lead or breathe in lead fumes, you may lose your hearing.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/ear-nose/
2.
Artist’s Name: Justone Lead-Soldier
Title of Image: Diminished
Lead-Safety Message: This allegorical image symbolises the lead contamination that, more or less, surrounds us in the anthropocene. When it is more, it can diminish a happy family. The family is shown small to emphasise how lead toxicity can diminish our lives both in length and quality. I chose an interracial family to show how lead can impact anybody, but particularly children. Each strike of dark lighting is an incidental, toxic hit; the cloud is environmental, cumulative lead. The images are ‘creative commons’ which further references the ubiquity of lead. The leaden sky aims to bring a mood that is redolent of the plumbophobia that can overcome us when we understand the truth about lead. The image stiffens the resolve of this lead soldier to continue the grim fight. Have a nice day.
Description of Work: Powerpoint. Acknowledgements: https://www.kissclipart.com/transparent-dark-cloud-clipart-dark-cloud-cumulus-h7wg3d/download-clipart.html, https://www.flickr.com/photos/jborget/17631872960, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/diminished/
3.
Artist’s Name: Elizabeth O’Brien
Title of Image: Richard Turnbull’s Lead Detox Concoction
Lead Safety Message: See Richard Turnbull’s recipe for this apparently effective garlic & lemon lead detox concoction, at https://lead.org.au/lanv19n4/LANv19n4-Call-for-Volcano-Art-Prize-2019-Entries.pdf
Description of Work: iPhone 4S Photographs collaged using Word and Paint.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/richard-turnbulls-lead-detox-concoction/
4.
Artist’s Name: Elizabeth O’Brien
Title of Image: Rainwater should always be lead tested
Lead Safety Message: The original rainwater tank on my childhood Kingaroy post-war home was almost certainly lead-contaminated but even the new tank water on the shed should be tested for lead.
Description of Work: iPhone 5S Photographs collaged using Word and Paint.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/rainwater-should-always-be-lead-tested/
5.
Artist’s Name: Elizabeth O’Brien
Title of Image: Shell and bullets from Kingaroy RSL
Lead Safety Message: Not only bullets but also mortar shells can be made from lead. War zones are giant lead-contaminated sites. Lest we forget.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/shell-and-bullets-from-kingaroy-rsl/
6.
Artist: William Nguyen, aged 11
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Geometrical Objects
Lead-Safety Message: All these shapes could be made from toxic lead but they’d be safe if they were made of stainless steel or wood.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/geometrical-objects-2/
7.
Artist: William Nguyen, aged 11
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Monarch Butterflies and Sunflower
Lead-Safety Message: The monarch butterfly’s bright colors serve as a warning to predators that they are poisonous but lead is grey or invisible so you have to work out that it’s there by testing for it.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/monarch-butterflies-and-sunflower/
8.
Artist’s Name: Elizabeth O’Brien
Title of Image: Catseyes on lightbulbs new and old
Lead Safety Message: The catseye contact points on light bulbs used to be made of lead. Who knows whether they still are?
Description of Work: iPhone 5S Photograph
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/catseyes-on-lightbulbs-new-and-old/
9.
Artist’s Name: Elizabeth O’Brien
Title of Image: Sidewalk Swings Good & Bad
Lead Safety Message: A good sidewalk swing has lead-free artificial grass or mulch or good grass cover under it, whereas tyres contain toxic cadmium and sometimes lead.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/sidewalk-swings-good-bad/
10.
Artist’s Name: Claire Leight
Title of Image: Lead Frog
Lead-Safety Message: Lead is to humans what cars are to cane toads, deadly.
Description of Work: Digital Photo
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/lead-frog/
11.
Artist: Jayden Wang, aged 9
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Potplants may contain lead contaminated soil
Lead-Safety Message: If a child can eat the soil in your potplants you should test the soil for lead with a LEAD Group Kit. If a child does eat soil, ask the GP for a blood lead test.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/potplants-may-contain-lead-contaminated-soil/
12.
Artist: William Nguyen, aged 11
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Lotus
Lead-Safety Message: Let the Lotus blossom in water free from lead contamination.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/lotus/
13.
Artist: William Nguyen, aged 11
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Shark
Lead-Safety Message: Beware lead is as dangerous as shark teeth. Be safe, lead safe.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/shark-2/
14.
Artist: Karina Guo, aged 9
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Spathiphyllum or peace lilies
Lead-Safety Message: When the world is at peace, lead bullets and lead-headed missiles will no longer be spread all over war-torn areas.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/spathiphyllum-or-peace-lilies/
15.
Artist’s Name: Elizabeth O’Brien
Title of Image: Lead detox food and drink to go
Lead Safety Message: Medical Medium Anthony William recommends this Heavy Metal Detox Smoothie, Juice and Tea, plus leafy green Salads, Celery Sticks and Dates.
Description of Work: iPhone 4S Photograph stretched to landscape shape using Word and Paint.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/lead-detox-food-and-drink-to-go/
16.
Artist: Celeste Chen, aged 11
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Butterfly
Lead-Safety Message: Most adult butterflies drink nectar from flowers through their straw-like tongues, so can be lead-poisoned if there’s lead dust in the flowers.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/butterfly-2/
17.
Artist’s Name: Elizabeth O’Brien
Title of Image: Ask your Water Authority for a ZLM
Lead-Safety Message: Within 10 days of me asking Sydney Water for a Zero Lead Meter (ZLM) to replace my leaded brass water meter, this Global Valve Technology ZLM appeared!
School Name:
Description of Work: iPhone 5S photo
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/ask-your-water-authority-for-a-zlm/
18.
Artist: Helen Han, aged 8
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Green and blue striped ceramic mug
Lead-Safety Message: Even when ceramic glazes are inside a mug where the hot drink goes, a high XRF lead reading does not necessarily mean the mug leaches lead into the drink.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/green-and-blue-striped-ceramic-mug/
19.
Artist: Celeste Chen, aged 11
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Lake House
Lead-Safety Message: Houses, boats, water, trees, waterplants, sediments and the air all need to be de-leaded or protected from lead.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/lake-house/
20.
Artist: Mark Ju, aged 13
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Young lady and woman
Lead-Safety Message: Women have often been lead poisoned by using skin whiteners and makeup that contains lead.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/young-lady-and-woman/
The Judge’s list of the thirty best Volcano Art Prize 2019 Images or Films and Lead-Safety Messages
These 30 winners will receive a Pictureproducts Blue ceramic mug printed with their winning image or any image they prefer on their mug! For example, Dr Michael Hindmarsh’s mug will be printed with the photo of him receiving his 2016 VAP mug prize from LEAD Group Treasurer Roger Kilburn (see image at right)!
Artwork for the mugs includes a VAP logo, the Lead-safety Message and www.volcanoartprize.com
See the example for James Wood’s 2019 VAP Winner mug below.
1st prize.
Artist: William Nguyen, aged 11
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Elephants Marching in Sunset
Lead-Safety Message: Lead poisoning of elephants is a possible cause of Floppy trunk syndrome, which may not be reversible.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/elephants-marching-in-sunset/
2nd prize.
Artists’ Names: Brian Arndt (lead-safety message) and NZME (photo)
Title of Image: Brian Arndt and his stack of Lead Research
Lead Safety Message: My Research, My Gift to future generations to stop this happening again, a world free from leaded Petrol.
Description of Work: Photograph by New Zealand Media & Entertainment (NZME) – reprinted with kind permission, from http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11959704&ref=rss
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/brian-arndt-and-his-stack-of-lead-research/
3rd prize.
Artist’s Name: Harrison Desmond (demonstrating dust wipe sampling technique)
Title of Film: How to collect a dust wipe sample from carpet
Lead-Safety Message: I’m so glad I used a LEAD Group Kit to find out the carpeted stairs outside my rental flat contain 10ug/m2 (0.93ug/ft2) lead – safe for my baby to crawl on.
URL of a short film: https://youtu.be/UIH-73gBPAI
Description of Work: iphone 4S film of Harrison Desmond (demonstrating dust wipe sampling technique)
URL: Click on the link to https://youtu.be/UIH-73gBPAI at https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/how-to-collect-a-dust-wipe-sample-from-carpet/ to see the film.
4th prize.
Artist’s Name: Noela Whitton
Title of Image: Still life with pears – Vale Margaret Olley
Lead Safety Message: Pears have long been said to be good for lead detox due to their pectin content but Anthony William says they’re good for detoxing all heavy metals.
Description of Work: Smartphone photo of oil painting on canvas by Noela Whitton, aged 89 – a copy done in Aged Care Art Therapy class, of “Still life with pears” by the great Australian artist Margaret Olley (1923-2011).
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/still-life-with-pears-vale-margaret-olley/
5th prize.
Artist’s Name: Siobhan Hannigan
Title of Image: Waving or Drowning
Lead-Safety Message: Make Lead matter
Description of Work: Ink and water colour
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/waving-or-drowning/?preview=true
6th prize.
Artist: Karina Guo, aged 9
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Cup of Coffee
Lead-Safety Message: Because there are so many sources of lead in coffee, the daily intake of lead from coffee may be as much as 20% of the total dietary intake of lead.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/cup-of-coffee/
7th prize.
Artist: Celeste Chen, aged 11
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Smart cats educate themselves on the dangers of lead
Lead-Safety Message: But if your cat can’t read, you’ll have to test their soil and water at the lab with a LEAD Group Kit from www.leadsafeworld.com/shop to keep them lead-safe.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/smart-cats-educate-themselves-on-the-dangers-of-lead/
8th prize.
Artist: William Nguyen, aged 11
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Kiwi fruit are full of Vitamin C
Lead-Safety Message: Kiwi fruit has a lot of antioxidants which are helpful in eliminating lead from the body. Include them in your diet.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/kiwi-fruit-are-full-of-vitamin-c/
9th prize.
Artist’s Name: Hesaan Sheridan
Title of Image: Lead sheet at the ends of exterior beams of a windmill eaten away in a matter of months!
Lead-Safety Message: The corrosion was accelerated by application of alkaline lime under the lead presumably to combat the acidic tannins in the wood.
Description of Work: Photos collaged using Word and Paint
10th prize.
Artist: Mark Ju, aged 13
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Mathematical structures
Lead-Safety Message: If you google images of “lead crystals” you’ll see they’re not as pure and simple as these geometric forms.
Description of Work: Lead pencil on acid-free paper
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/mathematical-structures/
11th prize.
Artist: Mark Ju, aged 13
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Bok Choy
Lead-Safety Message: All leafy green vegetables remove lead from the body
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/bok-choy/
12th prize.
Artist: Amanda Han, aged 9
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Red peace lilies in ceramic pots
Lead-Safety Message: Ceramic typically contains a lot of lead by XRF testing but if lab leach testing shows low lead, it is safe – even if a baby or pet licks it!
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/red-peace-lilies-in-ceramic-pots/
13th prize.
Artist: William Nguyen, aged 11
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Watermelon
Lead-Safety Message: Eat more fruits in your diet to eliminate the lead from the body.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/watermelon-2/
14th prize.
Artist: Jason Shin, aged 9
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Cranes and bulrushes at the water’s edge
Lead-Safety Message: Cranes can be lead poisoned if they eat lead shot (used by hunters) or lead sinkers (used by fishers). Both should be banned globally to protect these beautiful birds.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/cranes-and-bulrushes-at-the-waters-edge/
15th prize.
Artist’s Name: Michael Hindmarsh
Title of Image: Ban lead sinkers
Lead-Safety Message: Grandly showing is the half remaining of a hoard of toxic lead sinkers! Ready to instigate death! Wizely the English banned lead sinkers when proof was declared of the Royal swans dying of lead poisoning! There is no distinction between a fresh or saltwater death! Please ban!
Description of Work: Photograph
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/ban-lead-sinkers/
16th prize.
Artist’s Name: James Wood
Title of Image: Gold bracelet with diamonds over 70 years old ruined by lead
Lead-Safety Message: Lead is so toxic. The family heirloom cannot be worn as advised by a leading jewellery maker as the soldering is done with toxic lead which will seep into your blood stream if worn for a long time – such a waste and shame. “Lead can ruin an heirloom”
Description of Work: Photograph of a Gold bracelet with diamonds over 70 years old.
17th prize.
Artist’s Name: Gianna Marie Nobin, aged 5
Title of Image: Flowers
Lead-Safety Message: Protect Your Family from Exposures to Lead
School Name: St Christopher Catholic Primary School
Description of Work: Used chemical free paints, waxes
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/flowers/
18th prize.
Artist: Celeste Chen, aged 11
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Green Feathered Peacocks
Lead-Safety Message: Don’t contaminate nature with lead. Make the world a better place to live.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/green-feathered-peacocks/
19th prize.
Artist: Kelvin Guo, aged 8
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Sailing boat
Lead-Safety Message: The serenity of nature will be uplifted when humans stop adding lead to the atmosphere and the oceans.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/sailing-boat-4/
20th prize.
Artist: Helen Han, aged 8
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Bugs on daisies
Lead-Safety Message: Now that we understand how vital insects are for pollination, lead arsenate pesticide has been banned by many countries – but not all!
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/bugs-on-daisies/
21st prize.
Artist’s Name: Carla Puckeridge
Title of Image: Four generations Lead Safety Message: The LEAD Group works to ensure that each generation has less lead exposure as children than the one before, aiming for everyone to have a blood lead level below 1 ug/dL by 2041.
Description of Work: iPhone 4S Photograph
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/four-generations/
22nd prize.
Artist’s Name: Michael Musenga
Title of Image: Drafting of the lead paint law in Zambia
Lead-Safety Message: The 2019 Environmental and Climate Change Award (Environmental Activism Award) was awarded to the Children’s Environmental Health Foundation (CEHF) who through the Chairman and Coordinator has been instrumental in advocating for the enactment of the lead paint laws to Ban the manufacture, distribution, import, export, sale and use of lead paint. Advocacy was most directed at key stakeholders: policy makers and decision makers. This led to the adoption of 90ppm lead in paint standard as per the WHO/UN Lead Paint Alliance. Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) Awarded CEHF for a successful lead in paint elimination Campaign, at the event officiated by the Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet Mr Christopher Mvunga. The 90 PPM standard has been adopted by Zambia Bureau and submitted for government Gazetting.
Description of Work: Photo
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/drafting-of-the-lead-paint-law-in-zambia/
23rd prize.
Artist’s Name: Vanessa Aguirre
Title of Image: Vale Orlando Aguirre-Lopez, The LEAD Group’s French & Spanish Translator for 11 years
Lead-Safety Message: Over 100 of Orlando’s excellent translations are helping The LEAD Group create a lead-safe world.
Description of Work: Smart phone photo
24th prize.
Artist: Edison Nguyen, aged 7
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Vivid Opera House
Lead-Safety Message: Luckily the colours of Sydney’s Vivid Light Show are made without lead!
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/vivid-opera-house/
25th prize.
Artist: Kaitlyn Wang, aged 7
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Sydney Opera House at sunset
Lead-Safety Message: After sunset during the Vivid Light Festival, beautiful images are projected onto the sails of the Opera House, without any lead being added.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/sydney-opera-house-at-sunset/
26th prize.
Artist: Zoe Wyns, aged 6
Title: Rainbow over home and birds
Lead Safety Message: My home is full of colours of the rainbow because it is lead free.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/rainbow-over-home-and-birds/
27th prize.
Artist’s Name: Cameron Bestwick
Title of Image: Australian wildflowers flourishing and rotting together
Lead-Safety Message: The living and the dead: the difference could be lead.
Description of Work: A photograph taken by the artist near Blackheath NSW depicting the fine edge between a flourishing life and ruin. These flowers have grown in the same place, and under almost the same conditions. Some have flourished and some are dead. A seemingly small factor – such as the presence of an unsafe amount of lead – can be the deciding factor between them.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/australian-wildflowers-flourishing-and-rotting-together/
28th prize.
Artist’s Name: Justine Cooney
Title of Image: Good grass cover protects a baby from leaded soil
Lead Safety Message: Good grass cover or mulch or paving stops access to leaded soil but when a baby starts to crawl, parents have to stay very close to stop contaminated soil going in the mouth!
Description of Work: Smartphone photos collaged using Word and Paint. URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/good-grass-cover-protects-a-baby-from-leaded-soil/
29th prize.
Artist: Jayden Wang, aged 9
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Volcano and dragons
Lead-Safety Message: Dragons may not exist but lead emissions from volcanoes are very real!
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/volcano-and-dragons-2/
30th prize.
Artist: Elijah Yi Li Cai, aged 5
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Volcano erupting
Lead-Safety Message: When humans stop adding lead to the air and clean up contaminated land, the only source of lead in air will be volcanoes erupting.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/volcano-erupting/
Other entries in Volcano Art Prize (VAP) 2019
All child entrants will receive a Participants Certificate with their entry and Lead-safety Message printed on it. See examples below showing WHO and United Nations logos – the organisations who have run International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week of Action since 2013 at the behest of The LEAD Group:
Artist’s Name: Michael Musenga
Title of Image: CEHF awarded for their development of legally binding legislation to ban lead in paints in Zambia
Lead-Safety Message: Lead Safe Africa
Organisation Name: Children’s Environmental Health Foundation
Description of Work: Zambia has no legally binding regulations to limit lead in paint. The IPEN /CEHF Zambia lead report’s results is a strong justification for Zambia to enact the law. CEHF’s participation in the Independence celebration was to reach as many High level personnel to help in the support for the drafting legal team
Artist’s Name: Michael Musenga
Title of Image: Award Shield – Lead Safe Zambia by 2020
Lead-Safety Message: The award of extra ordinary contribution to the development of environmental health policies in Zambia, for Advocacy to policy makers to support the enactment of lead paint law, was awarded by acting Her Excellence Ms. Inonge Mutukwa Wina, Vice President of the Republic of Zambia.
Description of Work: Photo
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/award-shield-lead-safe-zambia-by-2020/
Artist’s Name: Jennifer Birch
Title of Image: Lead Poisoning Diagnosis
Lead-Safety Message: Don’t Let Your Doctor say what’s best – insist on a heavy-metal poison test!
Description of Work: Photograph of my dog with caption
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/lead-poisoning-diagnosis/
Artist’s Name: Julia Cole
Title of Image: A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor
Lead-Safety Message: Healing Takes Time
Description of Work: photograph images by Kim Cole and We Lead The Way Lead Poisoning Awareness Cause
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/a-calm-sea-does-not-make-a-skilled-sailor/
Artist’s Name: Julia Cole
Title of Image: Heal with Serenity
Lead-Safety Message: If you don’t heal what hurt you, you’ll bleed on people who didn’t cut you. Grant me the serenity to accept what I can’t change.
Description of Work: photograph images by Kim Cole and We Lead The Way Lead Poisoning Awareness Cause
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/heal-with-serenity/
Artist: Holly Lin, aged 10
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Palm trees, sailing boat & sea birds at sunset.
Lead-Safety Message: Our indigenous ancestors didn’t use leaded fishing tackle. Make our oceans and sea-life lead-safe today by banning lead sinkers globally.
URL : https://volcanoartprize.com/holly-lin-palm-trees-sailing-boat-sea-birds-at-sunset/
Artist: Celeste Chen, aged 11
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Sailing boat sunset and palm trees
Lead-Safety Message: Don’t contaminate nature with lead. Make world a better place to live.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/sailing-boat-sunset-and-palm-trees/?preview=true
Artist: Celeste Chen, aged 11
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Sydney Opera House
Lead-Safety Message: We need to stop lead going into stormwater so the Harbour water around the Sydney Opera House doesn’t lead poison marine life.
Description of Work: Colour pencils on acid-free paper
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/sydney-opera-house/
Artist: Jayden Wang, aged 9
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Sailing boat sunset and palm trees
Lead-Safety Message: Let the marine life be lead free by keeping our ocean lead free.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/sailing-boat-sunset-and-palm-trees-2/
Artist: Jayden Wang, aged 9
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Fish
Lead-Safety Message: Don’t contaminate the water with lead. Let the fish live in lead free water.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/fish-5/
Artist: Jayden Wang, aged 9
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Prawn and cherries
Lead-Safety Message: Healthy food, lead free food.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/prawn-and-cherries/
Artist: Jayden Wang, aged 9
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Sailing boat at sunset
Lead-Safety Message: Red, yellow and orange marine paints are particularly likely to be leaded. Ban lead paint for marine vessels.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/sailing-boat-at-sunset/
Artist: Edison Nguyen, aged 7
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: prawn and cherries
Lead-Safety Message: Include lead free healthy diet in your life.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/prawn-and-cherries-2/
Artist: Edison Nguyen, aged 7
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Sailing boat
Lead-Safety Message: Keep the nature beautiful without intoxicating with lead.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/sailing-boat-3/
Artist: Edison Nguyen, aged 7
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Green tea with cake
Lead-Safety Message: Green Tea supports the liver in clearing toxics from your blood, and cake just tastes good!
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/green-tea-with-cake/
Artist: Kelvin Guo, aged 8
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Sydney Opera House in red
Lead-Safety Message: Red lead paint was banned in Australia in 2010 so now, (and for always when the sun is setting), red doesn’t always mean lead.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/sydney-opera-house-in-red/
Artist: William Nguyen, aged 11
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Whales
Lead-Safety Message: Don’t contaminate the ocean with lead. Even the marine life deserves lead free ocean to live
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/whales/
Artist: William Nguyen, aged 11
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Brown Oriole with Red Berries
Lead-Safety Message:
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/brown-oriole-with-red-berries/
Artist: William Nguyen, aged 11
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Geometrical Objects
Lead-Safety Message: All these shapes could be made from toxic lead but they’d be safe if they were made of stainless steel or wood.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/geometrical-objects-2/
Artist: Helen Han, aged 8
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Prawns and cherries
Lead-Safety Message: Eat healthy, stay healthy with lead free world.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/prawns-and-cherries/
Artist: Helen Han, aged 8
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Sailing boat sunset palm tree
Lead-Safety Message: If your body is weighed down with toxic lead, you’ll soon run aground.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/sailing-boat-sunset-palm-tree/
Artist: Mark Ju, aged 13
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Girl and potplant
Lead-Safety Message: Don’t let lead cast a shadow over your child. Test their blood lead level and test the soil and dust in your home
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/girl-and-potplant/
Artist: Mark Ju, aged 13
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Thinking Lady
Lead-Safety Message: She’s thinking: why didn’t I buy a LEAD Group Kit to test the paint for lead before the contractors dry-sanded and spread it all over my house?
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/thinking-lady/
Artist: Karina Guo, aged 9
School Name: Creative Einstein Education (tutoring school)
Title: Seals
Lead-Safety Message: Seals can eat lead fishing weights and become lead poisoned so let’s ban lead sinkers now to save the seals!
Volcano Art Prize (VAP) 2017 Awards Ceremony
Collage and Words by Poornima Murthy
Volcano Art Prize (VAP) is an art competition held by The LEAD Group (charity organisation) annually for people of all ages. Two types of awards will be awarded – best entry chosen by the judge and best entry chosen by the people. Entering VAP could not just help you win attractive prizes but could also make you a Good Samaritan in spreading awareness about solutions to Lead problems in your day-to-day life. All the entries can be seen on https://volcanoartprize.com/ and the winning entries (including 4 short films) can be seen in this slide show. Take this opportunity to check out the 2017 VAP winning entries and be inspired to take part in VAP 2018.
[metaslider id=”2048″]
The fifth WHO International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week of Action (ILPPWA) or “Lead Week of Action” was held on Friday 27th October 2017 at Summer Hill, Sydney.
Ordering a Lead Safe World Poster made from any Volcano Art Prize (VAP) entry, at www.leadsafeworld.com/shop and give it to any place in your community where lead-safety messages are needed.
SPONSORED BY:
Description of collage from top left in clockwise direction:
References:
Whole article on VAP 2017 on https://www.lead.org.au/lanv18n2/LANv18n2-Truth-about-lead.pdf
