Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien
Lead-safety Message: There’s no regulation in Australia that stops lead being added to PVC. These PVC-coated clothes racks are not weather-fast so have no place being outside especially if you have young children, pets, backyard chickens or vegetable/herb gardens.
Description of Work: iPhone 13 photo.
Artist: Julia Jia
Age: 10
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Snakes use their forked tongues to help them smell chemicals in the air in three dimensions and figure out which way to go. If only we could smell lead – and if crawling babies could figure out how to crawl away from it!
Reference for Lead-Safety Message: Explainer: Why do snakes flick their tongues, 31 July 2014 https://theconversation.com/explainer-why-do-snakes-flick-their-tongues-29935
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper
Artist: Julia Jia
Age: 10
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: The phrase “eye of the tiger” refers to the intense and focused mindset of a person who is determined and ready to face a challenge – such as making the world lead-safe and climate-safe – with resilience and unwavering focus, much like that of a tiger.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper
Artist: Rishab Vohra
Age: 10
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Lead absorbed earlier in life is stored in your bones and can cause early death including by osteoporosis. A walk in the sunshine helps your body make Vitamin D for healthy bones and longevity.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper
Artist: Joshua Quarters
Age: 11
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Lead gets into trees and into us if we’re not vigilant. Burning fossil fuels and bushfires release lead into the air so a climate-safe planet will mean a lead-safe world. Don’t let lead cast a shadow on your intellectual abilities. The world needs a smarter generation to avert the climate crisis.
Reference for Lead-Safety Message: The LEAD Group Inc 2023 December – LEAD Action News v21n4 – Model National Lead Safety Policy and 2023 VAP
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper
Artist: Danny Wang
Age: 7
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: In the autumn of your life, you can remain vibrant in mind and body if you just make sure you’re as lead-safe as can be throughout life! Test for lead in your environment and in water with a LEAD Group Kit from https://leadsafeworld.com/leadkits
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper.
Artist: Tianyang Zhao
Age: 10
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: United States mean blood lead levels are like the keys of a piano – at every age category the Black population is higher than the White or Hispanic population.
Reference for Lead-Safety Message: Pirkle et al 1998 Exposure of the U.S. Population to Lead, 1991-1994 [NHANES III].
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper.
Artist: Tianyang Zhao
Age: 10
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Don’t let lead wheel weights or bullets or fishing sinkers or lead paint or lead oxide powder from vehicle lead acid batteries go from the city to the surf then settle in the sediments. Lead harms marine life.
Reference for Lead-Safety Message: Lead in the Environment – US Geological Survey Professional Paper 957: Abundance of Lead in Rocks, Sediments, Fossil Fuels, and Minerals (1970) – includes that 15 parts per million (ppm) is the average lead concentration in the earth’s crust, but 60 ppm is the average found in deep sea muds.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper.
Artist: Nicholas Jeffrey
Age: 10
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Snakes can be lead poisoned if they eat animals that have been shot with lead shot or bullets. All leaded ammunition should be replaced with non-lead ammunition to protect wildlife and pets that are fed shot animals. Reference: https://www.aussiepythons.com/threads/lead-poisoning.115931/#post-1502888
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper.
