Artist: Julia Jia

Age: 11

School Name: Creative Einstein

Lead-safety Message: Pelicans die of lead poisoning when they ingest lead shot or lead fishing tackle/sinkers. Small sinkers (under 2cm diameter) are most often consumed. All leaded ammunition and fishing sinkers should be banned and fished out of sediments so our pelicans can live.

Description of Work: Coloured quilling paper cut, curled, and glued to a board. Lead-Safety Message from Effects of lead ammunition and sinkers on wildlife.

Artist: Azalea Manttan

Age: 2

Lead-safety Message: My parents keep me safe from lead and other toxic metals.

Description of Work: Collage of lead-safe recycled items.

Artist: Jennifer Chuah

Age: 13

School Name: Creative Einstein

Lead-safety Message: For thousands of years humans have mined lead and for hundreds of years we’ve fought wars with lead ammunition. Peace means less lead will be used in bullets, missiles and as radiation shielding for nuclear weapons.

Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing collaged in Paint and Powerpoint.

Artist: Tianyang Zhao

Age: 11

School Name: Creative Einstein

Lead-safety Message: Blue crabs are eaten by fish, bigger crabs, mammals, birds and turtles so its lucky that crabs are generally lower in lead and mercury than other sea creatures.

Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. Lead-Safety Message from: Lead, Mercury and What Sea Animal Eats Blue Crabs?

Artist: Tianyang Zhao

Age: 11

School Name: Creative Einstein

Lead-safety Message: Just as Pikachu is brave in the face of countless challenges, young people like Greta Thunberg are brave when she says things like: “ I want you to panic, I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act, I want you to act as if you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if the house was on fire, because it is.”

Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. Lead-Safety Message from: Greta Thunberg quotes.

Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien

Lead-safety Message: #Grandma Lead says non-turbo helicopters use leaded AvGas and some fire suppressants dropped from Fire Fighting helicopters may be contaminating the environment they’re working to protect, with lead and other toxic heavy metals.

Description of Work: iPhone 13 photo. Lead-Safety Message from Metals in Wildfire Suppressants.

Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien

Lead-safety Message: #Grandma Lead says use only glass mugs for acidic or alcoholic hot drinks. Never ceramic or pewter or crystal glasses which will leach lead into the drink. One client in 2024 was seriously lead poisoned by adding boiling water to lemon juice in a ceramic mug and replenishing the hot water for drinks throughout the day.

Description of Work: iPhone 13 photo. Poster made in Powerpoint.

Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien

Lead-safety Message: My motivation for asking people to join me in self-experimenting with lead detox methods and now pushing for bone lead testing by pXRF in Australia, is my mother. She had notifiable (5-7 ug/dL) blood lead levels between 5 strokes in her final 21 years, the first stroke when she was just three years older than I am now.

Description of Work: iPhone 8 photos collaged in Paint and Powerpoint.

Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien

Lead-safety Message: 1. Strip old paint safely 2. Recycle lead paint waste. 3. Make lead acid batteries from 100% recycled lead. These are some of the steps towards a Circular Economy for Lead. If you’re an Australian voter, please sign my Petition EN6714 at https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6714 before it closes on Wed 04 Dec 2024 11:59 PM (AEDT)

Description of Work: iPhone 13 photo.

Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien

Lead-safety Message: Take steps today to reduce your fossil fuel burning to slow the rate of sea level rise and lead pollution of the land and oceans.

Description of Work: iPhone 13 photo. Lead-Safety Message from https://theconversation.com/burning-fossil-fuels-is-responsible-for-most-sea-level-rise-since-1970-57286#