Artist: Justine Cooney

Lead-safety Message: I want a future in which people care about each other, and as a society regulate to protect people, particularly the vulnerable like children, from known and preventable dangers such as lead poisoning.

Description of Work: iPhone photo.

Artist: The LEAD Group

Lead-safety Message: ABC News reporters Joanna Woodburn and Micaela Hambrett have done an awesome job in 2023 reporting on acid mine drainage from the former Sunny Corner mine, lead contamination and potential future lead hazards from Cadia Lead Mine near Orange, and the proposed Bowdens Silver Mine at Mudgee.

Description of Work: Collaged screenshots from Australia’s beef, sheep and olive exports could be ruined if lead mine is built in New South Wales, inquiry told – ABC News; Rural communities feeling anxious as NSW government pursues Critical Minerals Strategy – ABC News; Chair of NSW parliamentary inquiry into impacts of metal mining on human health flags integrity concerns – ABC News; NSW parliamentary inquiry submissions warn of lead, gold, silver, zinc mining impacts – ABC News

Artist: Mudgee Region Action Group

Lead-safety Message: It’s time for you dear readers to take action and sign the petition at https://www.change.org/p/help-stop-bowden-s-toxic-lead-mine! This could be the first of many lead mine and lead mine expansions to be stopped by wonderful people like you who are creating a lead-safe world for our children!

Description of Work: Screenshots from Petition · Stop Bowden’s Toxic Lead Mine · Change.org collaged together in PowerPoint.

Artist: Rohan Calvert

Lead-safety Message: Men in White (MIW) is an award-winning painting service in inner and eastern Sydney. Before photo on left, after on right. The Town and Country Illustrated Newspaper exterior wall sign was uncovered during renovations and made lead-safe to become a feature interior wall.

Description of Work: iPhone photos.

Artist: Mudgee Region Action Group

Lead-safety Message: Open cut lead mines hurt our health, environment and tourism. Help stop Bowdens mine. Bowdens intends to mine 130,000 tonnes of lead and build a large tailings dam across a fault line potentially creating a major acid mine drainage risk downstream. It’s time to take action!

Description of Work: Scanned flyers collaged together in Powerpoint.

Artist: Rohan Calvert

Lead-safety Message: Men in White (MIW) does lead-safe paint remediation in inner and eastern Sydney. Before photo on left, after on right. Rainwater collection area was also remediated to ensure no detectable lead in drinking water from back roof.

Description of Work: iPhone photos.

Artist: Jayne Bentivoglio and Jo Miskle

Lead-safety Message: Our health, water, air, land, and tourism are under threat! Protect Mudgee Region from toxic metal mining! Protect our greenfield agriculture! Lead poisoning is forever!

Description of Work: iPhone photos of protesters from Mudgee Region Health Alliance and Mudgee Region Action Group during International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week of Action 2023.

Artist: Marvin Xu

Age: 17

School Name: St Peter’s College, South Australia

Lead-safety Message: This was designed as part of my Year 12 Visual Art – Design course but of course the final speaker would be lead-free!

Description of Work: I used Plasticity & Keyshot to design and create a home speaker system which blends function with sculptural aesthetics.

Artist: Devrim Yasar

Age: 9

School Name: Creative Einstein

Lead-safety Message: Keep lead out of the ocean and stop global sea temperature rising by switching from burning fuel – even unleaded fuel contains trace amounts of lead – to renewable energy so apex predators like killer whales can continue to thrive.

Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper

Artist: Mavis Zhou

Age: 6

School Name: Creative Einstein

Lead-safety Message: Many birds and other wildlife starve after Australia’s bushfires which are now more extensive, more frequent, and increasingly burn all night due to climate change-induced hot dry periods. Indigenous fire management practices and renewable energy farms are needed urgently.

Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper