Lead-safety Message:It can seem lead is everywhere, but let’s fix the worst first.

Artist:Tim Pye

Description of Work: Shoe polish on a cupboard door post-processed with Adobe Lightroom.

Lead-safety Message:Because trees take up lead from the soil, bushfire smoke from the Black Summer bushfires in the Blue Mountains added lead to Sydney soil, dust and sediments.

Artist:Helen Hao

School:Creative Einstein

Age:8

Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing

Lead-safety Message:Pumpkin is thinking: I wish my owner filled my tank from a stainless steel tap, not a brass tap, so my water was pure and lead-free like where I was born.

Artist:Helen Hao

School:Creative Einstein

Age:8

Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing

Lead-safety Message:We can protect all our pets from lead-contaminated soil by testing soil for lead with a LEAD Group Kit then replacing the soil if needed.

Artist:Helen Hao

School:Creative Einstein

Age:8

Description of Work:Coloured pencil drawing

Lead-safety Message:The ash and smoke from volcanoes can contain as much lead as the lava. When leaded AvGas is banned and lead industry emissions are reduced, volcanoes will again become the major source of lead in the earth’s atmosphere.

Artist: Christopher Nguyen

School:Creative Einstein

Age:10

Description of Work:Computer art

Lead-safety Message:A wise tawny frogmouth doesn’t eat any lead-contaminated soil when they eat worms, slugs, snails, bugs, beetles, wasps, ants, centipedes, millipedes, and scorpions found on the ground.

Artist: Aurelia Jeffrey

School:Creative Einstein

Age:11

Description of Work:Charcoal drawing

Lead-safety Message:The survival of the human race depends on everyone choosing a bank and superannuation fund that does not invest in polluting industries, lead mining, fossil fuels, overfishing or deforestation.

Artist:Liza Tripathi

School:Creative Einstein

Age:10

Description of Work: Non-toxic water colour on acid-free paper.

Lead-safety Message:Planet earth needs our protection. I’m dreaming of planting billions of trees, having a sunset clause on all leaded products to phase them out, and the end of burning fossil fuels.

Artist:Liza Tripathi

School:Creative Einstein

Age:10

Description of Work:Non-toxic water colour on acid-free paper

Lead-safety Message:Whether you’re dreaming of re-painting your treehouse or your home, always test for lead first and don’t ever dry-sand lead paint!

Artist:Liza Tripathi

School:Creative Einstein

Age:10

Description of Work:Non-toxic water colour and lead pencil on acid-free paper

Lead-safety Message: Only eat cooked wild mushrooms if an adult expert identifies them as edible. Don’t eat any mushrooms found growing in city soil which could be lead-contaminated.

Artist:Kiara Nguyen

School:Creative Einstein

Age:9

Description of Work:Non-toxic water colour on acid-free paper