Artist: David Suh
Age: 10
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: D is also for Delicious. Lead distorts the metabolism of Vitamin D, reducing the amount transformed into the form most useful to the human body. So I get my Vitamin D from sunshine and from delicious fish like haddock, salmon and sardines.
Description of Work: Coloured quilling paper cut, curled, and glued to a board.
Reference for Lead-Safety Message: https://lead.org.au/lanv10n2/lanv10n2-10.html
Artist: Benji Muthukrishna
Age: 8
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: B is also for Bonus. The only way to avoid harm from lead in your body is to remove it. Chelators like EDTA bind to the lead in your blood so this biotoxin can be removed. As a bonus, lead removal may reverse some of the bad effects of lead.
Description of Work: Coloured quilling paper cut, curled, and glued to a board.
Artist: Zoe Lu
Age: 7
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Z is also for Zinc. Zinc helps over 300 enzymes to work in our body. Lead poisoning involves lead binding to enzymes in place of the zinc or iron etc, inhibiting them; it’s reversible because chelation with EDTA removes lead, restoring enzyme activity.
Description of Work: Coloured quilling paper cut, curled, and glued to a board. Lead Safety Message from: https://lead.org.au/lanv10n2/lanv10n2-14.html; https://www.vaia.com/en-us/textbooks/chemistry/fundamentals-of-general-organic-and-biological-chemistry-2017-edition/chapter-19/problem-63-one-mechanism-by-which-lead-exerts-its-poisonous-/ and https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10801957/#
Artist: Zoe Lu
Age: 7
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Like a shadow, Lead gets into the brain by “pretending” to be Calcium. Lead sneaks into brain cells and kills cells and breaks up cell-to-cell communication, thus causing short attention span, poor memory and trouble learning.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper. Lead Safety Message from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lead_in_the_Head.png
Artist: Benji Muthukrishna
Age: 8
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: In the old days, “lead pencils” had lead in them and the pigments in yellow, orange, red, green and brown pencil cores were lead pigments and lead paint was used on the outside too but now lead is strictly limited in and on what we still call “lead” (but is actually graphite) pencils and coloured pencils.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper.
Artist: Benji Muthukrishna
Age: 8
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Higher serum (blood) levels of α-carotene/β-carotene, α-cryptoxanthin/β-cryptoxanthin and other carotenoids – the pigments which make avocado flesh yellowish – are associated with lower blood lead levels.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. References for Message: https://lead.org.au/lanv10n2/lanv10n2-8.html and https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2796540/#
Artist: Benji Muthukrishna
Age: 8
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Indigenous Australians such as those living on Palm Islands, are more likely to have higher blood lead levels than non-Indigenous Australians. Governments should make efforts to test blood lead levels in order to Close the Gap for a brighter tomorrow.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing.
Artist: Zoe Lu
Age: 7
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Remote First Nations communities like Palm Island community where blood lead testing has never been done despite all the usual lead hazards being present, would benefit greatly by a portable XRF bone lead testing program.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing.
Artist: Jayne Bentivoglio
Lead-safety Message: My community has spent the last 12 years protesting against the proposed Bowden lead mine at Lue yet, as things stand, any new lead mine proposal on your home or farm or waterways is practically 100% likely to be approved no matter how unjustifiable the destruction of aboriginal heritage, water, wildlife, agriculture, tourism or cost of infrastructure and drain on non-renewable energy and dwindling clean water. Sign the Circular Economy for Lead petition at https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6714 before it closes on Wed 04 Dec 2024 11:59 PM (AEDT) to keep lead safely in the ground, and start instead, collecting and recycling existing lead to meet future needs.
Description of Work: Photo of protest in mid Oct 2024 with Mudgee Region Health Alliance and Mudgee Region Action Group and Sen Cate Faehrmann NSW Greens MLC.
