Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien
Lead-safety Message: Marmalade and other cooked citrus peel foods are a rich source of pectin which is a lead detox nutrient. Excellent when paired with high fibre wholemeal high-mineral seeded bread or toast.
Description of Work: iPhone photo of Lyn Bearlin’s home-made marmalade. Lead-Safety Message from: https://lead.org.au/fs/Foods_for_Lead_Detox_A-Z_20150214.pdf
Artist: Anne Roberts
Lead-safety Message: A LEAD Group Kit is a fantastic tool for detecting lead in a toddler’s environment through lab analysis of surface dust wipes from the playfloor and window sill, bare soil, water from brass taps installed in the last 3 years, from rain tanks or bores, paint, toy paint and ceiling cavity dust or vacuum dust.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils and pen on paper. Lead-Safety Message from: https://leadsafeworld.com/solutions/lead-group-diy-sampling-lab-analysis-lead-test-kits/
Artist: Benji Muthukrishna
Age: 8
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Let dolphins thrive in the moonlight, not die by stranding themselves on beaches. Heavy metal exposure like lead, mercury and cadmium, has been linked to degenerative heart disease, immunodeficiency and increased parasite infestations, among other disease risks in stranded dolphins and whales. Keep heavy metals out of stormwater and the sea!
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. Lead Safety Message from https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/02/240221160407.htm
Artist: Zoe Lu
Age: 7
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: OnceEvery new year brings more global warming and climate disturbances. What are you going to do this year to avert the crisis? Move your money to a green bank, invest in super that doesn’t invest in fossil fuels, switch from gas to electricity, get solar panels, …?
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper.
Artist: David Suh
Age: 10
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: If we can stop kids being lead poisoned and get the lead out of everyone, we can create a global population smart enough to avert a climate crisis. We are not yet past the point of no return.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper. Reference for Lead-Safety Message: The LEAD Group Inc 2023 December – LEAD Action News v21n4 – Model National Lead Safety Policy and 2023 VAP
Artist: Benji Muthukrishna
Age: 8
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Unlike in the past in China, when the industrial chelator TMT was mixed into contaminated sewage the TMT completely passivated the heavy metals so that food crop plants fertilised by the treated sewage were free of heavy metals.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper. Lead-Safety Message from www.leadtox.blog
Artist: Zoe Lu
Age: 7
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Once lead-using industries like aviation fuel additive and paint manufacturers stop adding lead to their products to increase their profits, and we work out how to collect or abate all the lead contamination in children’s environments, growing up unleaded will be plain sailing.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper.
Artist: David Suh
Age: 10
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: D is also for Delicious. Lead distorts the metabolism of Vitamin D, reducing the amount transformed into the form most useful to the human body. So I get my Vitamin D from sunshine and from delicious fish like haddock, salmon and sardines.
Description of Work: Coloured quilling paper cut, curled, and glued to a board.
Reference for Lead-Safety Message: https://lead.org.au/lanv10n2/lanv10n2-10.html
