Artist: Leo Manttan

Age: 6

Lead-safety Message: Researchers use see-thru zebrafish embryos to find out that high lead concentrations in the water cause death for 4 out of 5 fish eggs and even low lead levels cause faster heart beats and bending of the spine. Calcium ion rescue drugs can reverse the damage. Better still… let’s prevent lead pollution of water!

Description of Work: Texta drawings cut and collaged with cardboard and paper cut-outs on painted paper. Lead-Safety Message from Lead Exposure Causes Spinal Curvature during Embryonic Development in Zebrafish.

Artist: Leo Manttan

Age: 6

Lead-safety Message: Families that stay lead-safe together, thrive together. To leave a legacy of supporting lead safety, ask your will’s lawyer to add a bequest to your will of a percentage of your estate or other gift to The LEAD Group Inc. ABN 25819463114.

Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing on paper.

Artist: Azalea Manttan

Age: 3

Lead-safety Message: All living things deserve to be protected from lead. Use a LEAD Group Kit to test backyard eggs, water, soil, surface dust wipes, etc and treat any lead contaminated soil with RC3 Yard N Garden Activated Humate for application to plants and soil to bind the lead in and reduce egg lead levels.

Description of Work: Texta drawing on newsprint on coloured ink stamped paper.

Artist: Siobhan Hannigan

Lead-safety Message: If lead is there… then BE AWARE. To help make the world lead safe, you can donate to The LEAD Group’s LEAF fund at https://leadsafeworld.com/contribute/

Description of Work: Ink drawing with watercolour and leaf.

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Artist/Present: Ralph Spezio, School Principal

Lead-safety Message: When we have slain the lead monster, we will truly know we have put children first. When I found out that 100% of the 3-, 4- and 5-yr old special ed students at my school in Rochester USA had been found at age one or two to have blood lead levels above 10 µg/dL, I became a founding member of the Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning. Stay informed with our newsletter at https://theleadcoalition.org/

Description of Work: TEDxRochester Ralph Spezio video 1^st Nov 2010 – screenshots including learning and behavioral problems caused by lead, and three simple solutions, collaged in Powerpoint and Paint.

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Artists: Justine Cooney (Film-maker) & Phoenix Jewson (Talent)

Age: 6, Home Schooled

Lead-safety Message: We used a LEAD Group Kit to find out our farm soil is good and low in lead. The LEAD Group says broccoli is a great lead detox food, but in Port Pirie, children and pregnant women are told not to eat home-grown “leafy vegetables like lettuce, silverbeet, cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower”. Instead, they could treat the soil with RC3 Yard N Garden Potassium Humate to bind the lead to the soil, and then start eating their leafy greens and backyard eggs!

Description of Work: Video shot on iPhone, edited in Splice with music from Shuttershock (licensed by Splice video editing app). URLs: Farm Life with Phoenix Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@FarmLife.13 – this short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e72-HU0A4k. Message from Pregnant women and parents misled about dangers of living with lead pollution. Broccoli is a good source of: Alpha-linolenic acid (ALA); is rich in Calcium, Vitamin C and Carotenoids; and contains cysteine, a precursor of glutathione which detoxifies the brain and liver

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Artists: Alex & Phoenix Jewson

Age: 5 and 6, Home Schooled

Lead-safety Message: Just as Gryposuchus waits on the sidelines until Dilophosaurus has grown closer and closer, oral EDTA chelation has been around for 70 years and only now is poised to conquer lead poisoning globally – if only biscuit-makers and bread-bakers would come to the party and add this iron fortificant to commercially available foods that kids and adults like to eat daily. And in the background, lead-safety advocates will still be fighting to reduce lead emissions and make a circular economy for all lead products.

Description of Work: Stop-motion video.

Artist: Anne Roberts

Lead-safety Message: We’ve long known that birds and trees can be poisoned by lead. Each tree ring records a year of growth, but also a year of pollution. By measuring lead in the rings, researchers can reconstruct the rise and fall of airborne lead across decades.

Description of Work: Birds sculpted from wood in pieces and bolted/glued together. Message adapted from Professor Bruce Lanphear’s August 26, 2025 Substack – https://blanphear.substack.com/p/times-toxic-signature – The Chronicles of Lead Toxicity: A History Cast in Fire, Frozen in Ice.

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Artists: Justine Cooney (Film-maker) & Phoenix Jewson (Talent)

Age: 6, Home Schooled

Lead-safety Message: I have fun doing my daily chores in the lead-safe food garden and farm mummy has created for us, the quail, pigeons and chickens, cows, horses, rescued possum and magpie, by choosing low lead commercial stock feeds and testing with a LEAD Group Kit to ensure our soil and bore and rainwater all have low to non-detectable lead.

Description of Work: Video shot on iPhone, edited in Splice with music from Shuttershock ( licensed by Splice video editing app).

Artist: Phoenix Jewson

Age: 5, Home-Schooled

Lead-safety Message: This is my Brachiosaurus umbrella, me, Scorpius Rex, Pyro, puddles, rain and a rainbow. Eating nutritious foods like quail eggs, berries and vegetables we grow on our farm protects me from any lead in my shop-bought food or my environment.

Description of Work: cut-out printed photos, fabric, crayon and watercolour paint drawing.