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Lead-safety Message: Good grass cover or mulch or paving stops access to leaded soil but when a baby starts to crawl, parents have to stay very close to stop contaminated soil going in the mouth!

Artist: Justine Cooney

Description of Work: Smartphone photos collaged using Word and Paint

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Lead-safety Message: Not only bullets but also mortar shells can be made from lead. War zones are giant lead-contaminated sites. Lest we forget.

Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien

Description of Work: iPhone 4S Photograph

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Lead-safety Message: The original rainwater tank on my childhood Kingaroy post-war home was almost certainly lead-contaminated but even the new tank water on the shed should be tested for lead.

Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien

Description of Work: iPhone 5S Photographs collaged using Word and Paint.

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Lead-safety Message: The catseye contact points on light bulbs used to be made of lead. Who knows whether they still are?

Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien

Description of Work: iPhone 5S Photograph

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Lead-safety Message:See Richard Turnbull’s recipe for this apparently effective garlic & lemon lead detox concoction, at https://lead.org.au/lanv19n4/LANv19n4-Call-for-Volcano-Art-Prize-2019-Entries.pdf

Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien

Description of Work: iPhone 4S Photographs collaged using Word and Paint.

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Lead-safety Message: A good sidewalk swing has lead-free artificial grass or mulch or good grass cover under it, whereas tyres contain toxic cadmium and sometimes lead.

Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien

Description of Work: iPhone 4S Photographs collaged using Word and Paint.

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Lead-safety Message: Lead is to humans what cars are to cane toads, deadly.

Artist: Claire Leight

Description of Work: Digital Photo

Lead-safety Message: The LEAD Group works to ensure that each generation has less lead exposure as children than the one before, aiming for everyone to have a blood lead level below 1 ug/dL by 2041.

Artist: Carla Puckeridge

Description of Work: iPhone 4S Photograph

Lead-safety Message: Grandly showing is the half remaining of a hoard of toxic lead sinkers! Ready to instigate death! Wizely the English banned lead sinkers when proof was declared of the Royal swans dying of lead poisoning! There is no distinction between a fresh or saltwater death! Please ban!

Artist: Michael Hindmarsh

Description of Work: Photograph

Lead-safety Message: Lead is so toxic. The family heirloom cannot be worn as advised by a leading jewellery maker as the soldering is done with toxic lead which will seep into your blood stream if worn for a long time – such a waste and shame. “Lead can ruin an heirloom”

Artist: James Wood

Description of Work: Photograph of a Gold bracelet with diamonds over 70 years old.