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Lead-safety Message: Use non toxic art materials. Never chew on your pencils – there might be lead in the paint on the surface.

Artist: Sreedhar Ritishaa

Description of Work: Non toxic texta and coloured pencils on paper

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Lead-safety Message: Nearly half of all cataracts in humans are caused by lead exposure. Prevention is the best cure.

Artist: Alice Ju

Description of Work: Non toxic acrylic on canvas board

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Lead-safety Message: Every octopus is venomous, but the Blue Ringed Octopus is lethal. Every heavy metal is toxic, but lead kills the most people, via heart attacks and stroke.

Artist: Alice Ju

Description of Work: Non toxic acrylic on canvas board

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Lead-safety Message: Our oceans and beaches need to be clean – not polluted by lead-painted scuttled ships or lost lead fishing sinkers.

Artist: Lola Hou

Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper

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Lead-safety Message: When lead ore dust filled the air in the port of Esperance in Western Australia, 9,000 birds died of lead poisoning, before the ore was shipped to China. This should never happen again – birds need to be protected from pollution.

Artist: Brandon Banh

Description of Work: Quilled non toxic coloured paper

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Lead-safety Message: In the California condor’s range the use of lead ammunition has been banned to hunt deer, wild pig, elk, pronghorn antelope, coyotes, ground squirrels, and other non-game wildlife, so that the condor’s don’t die of lead poisoning when they eat the shot animals.

Artist: Brandon Banh

Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper

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Lead-safety Message: Every time you burn something it adds more lead into the air. Ask the doctor to test children’s blood lead levels before and after Holi. Don’t buy leaded sparklers.

Artist: Arindam Bala

Description of Work: Canon EOS500D photo

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Lead-safety Message: Every time you burn something it adds more lead into the air. That’s why The LEAD Group is part of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves.

Artist: Arindam Bala

Description of Work: Canon EOS500D photo

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Lead-safety Message: Don’t leave paint flakes, plastic or other rubbish on the ground for stormwater to wash into the river. Keep your river cleaner for a lead-safe world.

Artist: Arindam Bala

Description of Work: Canon EOS500D photo

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Lead-safety Message: Until there’s a sunset clause on leaded aviation fuel globally, this traditional way of getting about is more lead-safe!

Artist: Arindam Bala

Description of Work: Canon EOS500D photo