Artist: Siobhan Hannigan
Lead-safety Message: Watch out! What is dumped in the sea will pollute seawater and whales and seafood forever! In September 1997 the Pasminco lead zinc smelter in Hobart stopped dumping jarosite (a waste product containing lead, cadmium, mercury and arsenic) at sea, after making 9,089 dumpings (a total of 2.4million tonnes) since 6th March 1984.
References for Lead-Safety Message: Pasminco Ends Ocean Dumping: Protests led to a ban on ocean dumping at https://lead.org.au/lanv6n3/lan6n3-16.html; Annual Report Of The LEAD Group Inc 2002 – Ten Year Review of Objectives at https://lead.org.au/tlgar2002.pdf ; Sea Dumping in Australia: Historical and Contemporary Aspects at https://uxo.defence.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/sea-dumping-in-australia-historical-and-contemporary-aspects.pdf
Description of Work: Medium; Ink and teabags on paper