Artist: Mark Antonio
Age: 12, School in the Philippines
Lead-safety Message: As in every other country, Filipino Lead Studies have found that tiny lead particles in dust and soil are inhaled and ingested then absorbed and affect brain development of children.
Description of Work: Pen and coloured pencil drawing on paper
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien and Kerry O’Donnell
Lead-safety Message: With the reframing of the huge health and environmental impacts of lead, and audacious funding support, a Lead Safe World is truly “in the frame” to happen in time to also save the world from climate disaster!
Description of Work: Lead Safe World logo by Kerry O’Donnell, inside a frame collaged from three photos by Elizabeth O’Brien, two co-founders of The LEAD Group Inc.
Artists: Green Range and Lead Pro Aus
Lead-Safety Message: Green Range and Lead Pro Aus operate as complimentary companies focused on protecting shooting range environments across Australia. Green Range specialises in environmental infrastructure and range management solutions. Lead Pro Aus works alongside these systems by providing specialist lead recovery and environmental remediation services.
Description of Work: Video showing ShotStop Shooting Curtain System and Lead Pro Aus “Lead Miner” machine collecting spent lead ammunition (for later recycling) from shooting range soil, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd_UVjq0Pjc ; accessible via https://www.greenrange.com.au/government
Artist: Yuna Marquez
Age: 8
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Cattails (reeds) act as bio-sorbents that absorb lead from contaminated wastewater and soil, with higher concentrations accumulating in the roots compared to leaves. This capacity makes them effective for phytoremediation in wetlands, though it means they can accumulate heavy metals, posing a potential environmental contamination source.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper, collaged in Paint and Powerpoint. Lead-Safety Message from Google AI Assistant.
Artist: Kevina Malhotra
Age: 11
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Both Hummingbird feathers and Seahorses are good lead bioindicators because both live in limited moving ranges and bioaccumulate local lead pollution. Hummingbirds get lead from nectar and small insects, whereas Seahorses get lead from crustacea like shrimps. Microplastics in the ocean might also increase the bioaccumulation of heavy metals by Seahorses.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper. Collaged in Paint and Powerpoint. Lead Safety Message from Bioaccumulation of contaminants in wild seahorses collected from coastal China, 17 October 2022; Toxic metals and associated sporulated bacteria on Andean hummingbird feathers, 31 August 2016.
Artist: Devrim Yasar
Age: 11
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Another global warming and lead connection: During droughts, shrinking water holes can concentrate heavy metals like lead. As water levels fall, elephants are forced to consume sediment, mud, and water with high concentrations of contaminants.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing, side panels added in Paint and Powerpoint. Lead-Safety Message from Google AI Assistant.
Artist: Mavis Zhou
Age: 9
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Because Seahorses are generally poor swimmers and inhabit coastal areas, they are highly vulnerable to pollutants like lead which causes deformities and population decline. Don’t let lead enter stormwater, rivers or the ocean.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. mirrored in Paint and Powerpoint. Lead-Safety Message from Google AI Assistant.
Artist: David Suh
Age: 11
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Great White sharks have been found to have alarmingly high concentrations of lead, mercury, and arsenic – enough to kill other species – but researchers don’t yet know how they survive. “There’s a possibility that sharks have potentially important metal binding proteins, that … [move]… these metals …from the blood to the tissues.”
Description of Work: Lead Safety Message from Sharks cope with levels of heavy metals in their blood that would kill other animals, CBC Radio Canada (April 19, 2019). Coloured pencil drawing.
Artist: Khangai Davaasuren
Age: 9
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Kookaburras can ingest lead particles from soil contaminated by old paint, discarded ammunition, or fishing weights, often mistaking these materials for grit.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. Lead Safety Message from Google AI Assistant.
Artist: Kevina Malhotra
Age: 11
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Shading shapes to make them look 3-dimensional is challenging. Getting lead out of people to give them a better chance of a smart healthy future is even more challenging. Its possible everyone alive today could be deleaded by oral EDTA, but many obstacles must first be overcome.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper. Lead Safety Message from www.leadtox.blog of Dr Ulrich Mack, BSc PhD (UQ Medicine).
