Artist: Harrison Desmond
Age: 4
Pre-school: Summer Hill Children’s Centre
Lead-safety Message: All creatures on earth are connected by our need for clean air, water and soil. The lines between the animals on my map are pathways for us to be together.
Description of Work: coloured texta drawing on re-use paper.
Artist: Grandma Lead
Lead-safety Message: LED (Light Emitting Diode) bulbs sold today in Australia are not only more energy efficient but also don’t contain lead cats-eyes contacts like the old incandescent bulbs did. So, while all light bulbs should be separated from general waste for recycling, mercury- and lead-free LED bulbs can be recycled for their glass and aluminium with less hazardous waste created, and hopefully, in the future we’ll also extract valuable gallium and indium in the LED recycling process so we don’t have to usurp good farming land to mine these rare minerals.
Description of Work: Message from energyrating.gov.au (including Figure 23.Life-cycle environmental impacts of three household lamp technologies, from US DOE 2012); recyclingnearyou.com.au; Landline – Mineral Sands by Gillian Aeria 17 Nov 2024 (TRANSCRIPT); and Peter Dixon, Lighting Expert. iPhone13 photo collaged in Powerpoint and Paint with Fig 23.
Artist: Grandma Lead
Lead-safety Message: While gazing at the saturnine moon behind the jacaranda, and noting my own thoughts about what I don’t yet know about lead-safety, I have come to depend on a mellifluous Scottish sleepcast to lull me off to sleep: “No-one knows quite how deep the loch is. No plumbline has ever reached its bottom… It could be as deep as it is still… The truth is, when it comes to its depth, we just don’t know.”
Description of Work: Message quote from Soothing Scottish Loch sleepcast in Headspace app; iPhone13 photo.
Artist: Grandma Lead
Lead-safety Message: Just as this rosemary plant is aligned perfectly towards the midday sun to help it grow, I hope that now that The LEAD Group has joined (in September 2025) UNICEF’s Partnership for a Lead Free Future (PLF) and Children’s Environmental Health Collaborative (CEH is co-founded by UNICEF, UN Environment Programme and the World Bank) we can work perfectly in alignment with all the governments, NGOs and others who have already or will join the PLF, to create global lead-safety ASAP and the grand prize of a Lead Free Future.
Description of Work: iPhone13 photos collaged in Powerpoint and Paint.
Artist/Photographer: Jenny Rowbotham
Lead-safety Message: With broken air monitors like this for the Broken Hill CML7 Mining Lease and totally incredibly low Lead & lead compounds emitted to air (fugitive/total) like 95kg in 2015/16; despite the astronomical Lead & lead compounds transferred to on-site tailing storage reported as 1,600,000 kg in the same year in the NSW EPA uploads to the National Pollutant Inventory (NPI), how can any government even consider renewing this surface lead Mining Lease and why doesn’t NSW EPA interrogate/investigate BROKEN HILL OPERATIONS PTY LTD, CBH Resources- Rasp Mine – Broken Hill data before passing it on from the mine operators to NPI?
Description of Work: Lead-Safety Message data from www.npi.gov.au federal Australian government website. Smart phone photos collaged in PowerPoint and Paint.
Artist: Grandma Lead
Lead-safety Message: In February 2025 I added CaEDTA biscuits or crackers and then FeEDTA crackers or bread to my usual breakfast &/or lunch lead detox foods (fresh ginger and garlic, garlic paste and garlic-infused oil, red onion, coriander &/or parsley, mixed pepitas, sunflower & black & white sesame seeds, sesame seed halva, psyllium, wild blueberries, orange rind in syrup, lime/lemon zest & juice, a brazil nut, LivOn Vit C, Calcium with Vit D, Magnesium) then in September 2025 I added RC3 Sea Minerals in milk, omega-3 oil, creatine (after it was ok’ed by my GP) & pistachio nuts & sour cherries for dementia prevention and improved sleep (when the brain is being detoxed). I’ve brought my blood lead level down this year by 40% on this daily lead detox regime.
Description of Work: iPhone13 photos collaged in Powerpoint and Paint.
Artist: Grandma Lead
Lead-safety Message: The Purpose of my Life is to: be a powerful, visionary & passionate woman inspiring others to become lead-safe and accept guidance on how to protect the environment; to be a teacher and mentor empowering humankind to be free from toxic exposures; to further my quest for environmental justice and to enable children to reach their full potential and preserve the world they will inherit. To be all this with ease and pleasure.
Description of Work: Purpose hand-written by Elizabeth O’Brien in 2003 with pencil overwriting of faded phrase done in Paint with a vertical mouse in 2025.
Artist: Tony Lennon
Lead-safety Message: Grow your own garlic for maximum health benefits and minimum food travel miles! Near the winter solstice, plant good organic (not imported bleached Chinese) garlic cloves tip-upwards just below the surface 10 cm apart in deep rich well-drained elevated soil and water in well. Near the summer solstice pick the whole plants and hang up in a well-ventilated room in your home with no direct sun. Remember to keep the best bulbs for next season for seeds so to speak. You will then end up with garlic suited to your soil and location.
Description of Work: Smart phone photos collaged together.
Artist: Eric Evans
Age: 13
School: Ashfield Boys High
Lead-safety Message: I swear when I gave this card to my mum there was very low-lead milk chocolate inside the packaging! I did my research and read: “It seems that despite the many health benefits of dark chocolate, in the case of lead, milk chocolate wins.”
Description of Work: Message from Chocolate: Lead and Cadmium in LEAD Action News vol 22 no 1 April 2024 by The LEAD Group. Card made with love from purchased objects.
