Artist: Liam Paune

Age: 12, School in the Philippines

Lead-safety Message: Extreme Weather, Extreme Risks. They all make lead poisoning more likely and worse for the individual. Ask your government to act now for a safer tomorrow.

Description of Work: Crayons

Artist: Paula Jacobe

Age: 11, School in the Philippines

Lead-safety Message: There’s no safe level of lead in the body except zero so adults need to protect us kids from lead in paint, lead acid battery recycling emissions and lead-contaminated water. Prevention starts with awareness.

Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing.

Artist: Paula Jacobe

Age: 11, School in the Philippines

Lead-safety Message: Lead replaces Iron in the blood causing anemia, reduces IQ making it harder to learn,  and increases the risk of early death from stroke and heart attack. Protect Their Future: Keep Kids Safe from Lead Poisoning.

Description of Work: Pen and coloring pencils on paper

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.