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Lead-safety Message: Grow healthy sunflowers in soil that is not contaminated.

Artist: Alice Ju

Materials: Non-toxic coloured paper

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Lead-safety Message: Lead-aware artists today can always use lead-free materials.

Artist: Alice Ju

Materials: Non-toxic coloured paper.

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Lead-safety Message: “Plants won’t grow in highly lead cotaminated soil.”

Artist: John Smith

Materials: Digital image maniplated on Art Flow software.

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Lead-safety Message: Got lead? Lead contaminated cows pass on the lead to us.

Artist: Claire O’Brien

Materials: Oil on canvas

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Lead-safety Message: Protect our rivers to protect the cows

Artist: Harriet De Wynter

Materials: Paint

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Lead-safety Message: Don’t let children or pets eat leaded soil

Artist: Noela Whitton

Materials: Non toxic water colour on acid free paper

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Lead-safety Message: “Charlie and the lead factory. Help children like Charlie eat chocolate not lead, test the soil and paint in your home for lead today.”

Artist: Louisa Delores (Anderson) Taylor

Materials: Felt tip pencils and pastels

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Lead-safety Message: “These images are taken from the Tasmanian Smelters site at the silver lead mining town of Zeehan on Tasmania’s rugged and wild west coast. Zeehan once had a thriving township and 111 mines but mining ceased in the 1960’s. Acid mine drainage and lead, arsenic and cadmium metal leachate from the mines and smelters continues to contaminate several waterways that flow into the Little Henty River which flows south west from Zeehan into the Great Southern Ocean. Many parts of the Zeehan township remain highly contaminated with lead and other toxic metals. The West Coast Council does not provide any information to people wanting to buy cheap properties in west coast mining towns such as Zeehan and therefore buyers are not given a right to know about any potential health risks associated with living on properties that may have dangerously high levels of metals including lead, arsenic and cadmium. Zeehan is known to be the most highly contaminated mining town in Tasmania and the Tasmanian Smelters site probably the most toxic.“

Artist: Isla MacGregor

Soundtrack: “Friday Night Improv” by Ian Smith

Materials: Adobe Photoshop, Olympus PEN E-PL1 Digital Camera, SONY A7R Mirrorless Camera

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Lead-safety Message: “A lead safe future is in your hands.”

Artist: Jeane Grimm

Materials: Edited Digital Photo

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Lead-safety Message: “We’ve been studying the impact of toxins on children for the past 30 years and reached the inescapable conclusion: little things matter. We’ve discovered that extremely low levels of toxins can impact brain development. We have also discovered that subtle shifts in the intellectual abilities of individual children have a big impact on the number of children in a population that are challenged or gifted. Steps should be taken to reduce children’s exposure to toxins or suspected toxins.”

Artists: Bruce Lanphear (Producer and Narrator), Bob Lanphear (Art Direction and Graphic Design), Trevor Phillips (Motion Graphics and Video Production), David Murphy, Chris Jeschelnik and Jason Levis (Audio/Video)

Advisory Team: Erica Phipps, Adrienne Montani, Bruce Lanphear, Joanne Telfer, Manda Aufochs-Gillespie

Sponsors: Simon Fraser University Engagement Fund, Artemis Fund

Materials: Infographic Video (Graphics, Video Editing Software, Filming Equipment)