Artist: Danny Wang

Age: 8

School Name: Creative Einstein

Lead-safety Message: “By the time the aliens fly by, rather than this pear-shaped Earth, let’s show them: a well-informed, well-regulated, lead-knowledgable World – a Lead-Safe World.” This is most easily achieved if national governments utilise The LEAD Group’s our Model National Lead Safety Policy (2023).

Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing.  Message from Consumer Products and Lead Exposures: Vision for a Lead-Safe World by Elizabeth O’Brien, LEAD Action News; June 2012 and https://leadsafeworld.com/directory (2023).

Artist: Danny Wang

Age: 8

School Name: Creative Einstein

Lead-safety Message: This could be a cluster of Scarlet Waxcap mushrooms OR it could be any one of similar-looking poisonous mushrooms so don’t eat it!! With lead, it’s much harder to know what contains poisonous lead so don’t let your little brother or sister eat soil, paint or put their own dirty fingers in their mouth. Ask your parents to test for lead with a LEAD Group Kit from www.leadsafeworld.com/shop if you see that happening.

Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing.

Artist: Tenzin Kuensel

Age: 12

School Name: Creative Einstein

Lead-safety Message: Daisy Shu wrote, in 2010, that: “Studies have shown that lead exposure can result in a reduced sensitivity of rod photoreceptors, blurred vision and irritated eyes4 as well as an increased susceptibility to cataract and optic neuritis.” Test the soil and playfloor surface dust for lead before young children play on them, with a Posted LEAD Group Kit from www.leadsafeworld.com/shop

Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. Lead-Safety Message from: How does lead exposure affect our eyes? – https://lead.org.au/lanv10n3/lanv10n3-8.html – published by The LEAD Group Inc in LEAD Action News, June 2010.

Artist: Tenzin Kuensel

Age: 12

School Name: Creative Einstein

Lead-safety Message: Strawberries are moderately high in Vit C (which helps remove lead from your body) and they reduce the recycling of toxics within the body. If you grow strawberries, be sure to test your soil for lead with a LEAD Group Kit, and always wash them before eating them from the garden.

Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. Lead-Safety Message from: Foods for Lead Detox – Foods which Fight Lead Poisoning – https://lead.org.au/fs/fst86.html and www.leadsafeworld.com/shop to buy LEAD Group Kits.

Artist: David Suh

Age: 11

School Name: Creative Einstein

Lead-safety Message: Wave goodbye to the lead that’s already in your body – we all have some – by eating food made with the iron fortificant Ferric EDTA or taking Calcium EDTA capsules every day for months or years. The more lead you are carrying the longer it takes.

Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. Lead-Safety Message from: https://leadtox.blog/ – Dr Ulrich Mack’s blog.

Artist: Grandma Lead aka Elizabeth O’Brien

Lead-safety Message: #Grandma Lead says finding out that RC3 Yard N Garden Activated Humate foliar spray plant growth promotor can also be added to soil to chelate or bind lead in the soil, is a game-changer! And the RC3 Potassium Humate and RC3 Sea Minerals also promote plant growth so get some RC3 products on your garden today!

Description of Work: iPhone 13 photos of RC3 products from https://rc3.info/ collaged in Powerpoint and Paint.

Artist: Riley Jewson, Age: 6

Lead-safety Message: 1923 Sept – workers started dying in the DuPont TEL works… “sickening deaths and illnesses of hundreds of TEL workers… Gripped by violent bursts of insanity, the afflicted would imagine they were being persecuted by butterflies and other winged insects before expiring, their bodies having turned black and blue.” (Kitman 2000)

Description of Work: Message from Chronology of Leaded Gasoline / Leaded Petrol History, 2011 by Elizabeth O’Brien and Zac Gethin-Damon, 23 Dec 2011. Stencilled butterflies drawn in and around with coloured pencils.

Artist: Grandma Lead aka Elizabeth O’Brien

Lead-safety Message: “Passing by butterflies, fluttering for a day” – a line from An ocean of strange islands, reminds me of 1920s US tetra ethyl lead (TEL) factory workers who were so lead poisoned they hallucinated butterflies and soon after, died. I pray that the New Zealand Prime Minister will finally acknowledge and compensate the last one alive of the manual TEL plant workers, Brian Arndt (who turned 85 in 2025), for his exposure to TEL at New Zealand Petroleum Refinery 1965-1975.

Description of Work: Screenshot from Nightwish – An ocean of strange islands (official lyric video) & lyric by Songwriter: Tuomas Holopainen. An Ocean of Strange Islands lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing. Message from Rebecca Skloot’s Houses of Butterflies, Jan 2001, and Dr Ulrich Mack’s LeadTox Blog Institutional Manslaughter Part 1, 25 Jul 2025.

Artist: Grandma Lead

Lead-safety Message: The LEAD Group seeks to Close the Gap (in health, education and justice between First Nations and more recently arrived Australians) by offering a free 8-Sample LEAD Group Kit to anyone wishing to collect samples which could lead to the reduction of lead exposure in Indigenous Australians. To take up our offer, please fill in the form at https://leadsafeworld.com/free-lead-group-kits-for-indigenous-australians/ or phone free call 1800 626 086.

Description of Work: Message from www.leadsafeworld.com/shop/ & iPhone 13 photos of grasstree flower spikes growing closer together as they get higher off the ground, collaged in Powerpoint and Word.

Artist: Grandma Lead aka Elizabeth O’Brien

Lead-safety Message: These 6 LEAD Group Kits – whether emailed or posted – are making Australia lead-safe one family at a time – so adaptable! Buy an Emailed LEAD Group Kit to test paint, toy paint, soil, backyard eggs, commercial chicken feed, ceiling cavity dust, vacuum dust, food, supplements, complementary medicine, or a Posted Kit to test any of these and/or surface dust wipes and water samples, for lead, other toxic metals, asbestos, pH, fluoride and even pesticides.

Description of Work: Screenshots from www.leadsafeworld.com/shop collaged in Powerpoint and Paint.