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Lead-safety Message: This powerful, strategic and determined children’s python, in going up the post to the roof, inspires me to ensure that The LEAD Group persists until the world is lead-safe. World.
Artists: Elizabeth O’Brien (film) and Ian Smith (soundtrack)
Materials: Video filmed on iPhone 4S. Electric keyboard improvisation by Ian Smith recorded and edited using Ableton. Music added to the timeline by Dennis Leight using Premiere Pro
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Lead-safety Message: Sydney Analytical Laboratories (SAL) supports lead-safety in Australia by testing lead and other heavy metals in eggs, paint, water, dust, soil, toys, jewellery, etc and asbestos in building materials via LEAD Group Kits.
Artist: SAL (Sydney Analytical Laboratories)
Description of Work: Photos collaged using Word and Paint.
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Lead-safety Message: Every speck of lead dust or paint that is washed into
Sydney Harbour when it rains, affects the marine life and builds up in the sediment. Report dusty demolition work or flaking/sanding of old paint to the Environment Protection Authority.
Artist: Peter Larkin
Description of Work: taken with a Canon EOS 40D SLR camera.
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Lead-safety Message: As long as you get a competent contractor like Lets Clean in Sydney, to safely strip your lead paint, and then use non-leaded paint, you can camouflage surface defects with a mural and AND be lead-safe!
Artist: Ian Smith
Description of Work: Various colours of leftover residential paint bought after 1997 (no added lead by law) on bare 1884 originally exterior wall filled-in and converted to an interior wall in the 1960s.
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Lead-safety Message: Any soil near buildings with old paint should be tested with a LEAD Group Kit. Depending on the lab lead result, we may recommend fresh turf be laid.
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien
Description of Work: iPhone 4S photos of turf ready to be laid in the back yard of a home in inner Sydney.
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Lead-safety Message: Does your stock feed meet the Stock Food Act lead, cadmium and mercury limits? A LEAD Group Kit found a brand of chicken feed (not shown here) had 5 times the lead limit but there was no lead detected in the Organic chook food / layer mash made by Country Heritage Feeds.
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien
Description of Work: iPhone 4S photos of Stock feed for your horse, parrot, wild bird, poultry, alpaca, llama, goat, sheep, pig, cattle, dog and cat – collaged together by Mark Goodenough, with google layout engine
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Lead-safety Message: Organic food and especially marmalade (which contains pectin), yoghurt, wholegrain foods and green tea are all known for their ability to detox lead from the body.
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien
Description of Work: iPhone 4S photo of home-grown organic kaffir lime marmalade home-made by Lyn Bearlin, wholemeal toast, organic butter, organic banana, natural yoghurt, golden kiwi fruit and organic green tea.
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Lead-safety Message: There is no smoke in La Oroya since 2009, but children continue to be born contaminated with lead.
Artist: Dr Godofredo Arauzo Chuco, El Carmen Hospital, Ministerios de Salud [Health Ministry] AND Red Latina sin fronteras [Latin Network without Frontiers]
Description of Work: Blood lead graphs
