Lead-Safety Message: Always buy lead-free products if they are available eg lead-free ammunition, crystal, fishing sinkers, jewellery, artists’ paints, wheel weights.

Artist: Judy Pinn

Description of Work/Material: Photograph

Lead-Safety Message: Etchings can be lead free. Today you can buy artists paints that do not contain heavy metals like lead, but if you are using leaded artists paints, make sure you never hold the paintbrushes in your mouth or get the paint in or on you

Artist: Eli Gallwey

Description of Work/Material: Solar Plate Etching with Stencil & Viscosity Printing with lead free inks

Lead-Safety Message: Lead raises mortality from all causes, Vitamin D has the opposite effect. Good health involves tracking these metrics.

Artist: Kari McKern

Description of Work/Material: Photograph

Lead-Safety Message: As the lead stored in your bones leaches into your blood as you age, so you get closer to the grave.

Artist: Tony Lennon, Sculptor

Description of Work/Material: Animal bones found in the bush, safely set in molten lead

Lead-Safety Message: If in doubt about a colour change kit result on paint, send a sample to the lab with a LEAD Group kit. You’ll not only get an exact result back, you’ll also get recommendations on what to do about it!

Artist: Ardhika Wira

Description of Work/Material: iPad Photo, text added in Paint, size increased in ALsee

Lead-Safety Message: As we age, the lead we took in earlier in life, leaves our bones, raises our blood pressure and brings on dementia. Ask your doctor to test your blood lead level – there may be ways to remove your lead before it takes its toll.

Artist: Sue Gee

Description of Work/Material: Digital image

Lead-Safety Message: Yoghurt, garlic, onions, bananas and fruits such as apples and pears which contain pectin (especially the pips) help to reduce absorption, as well as detoxifying lead from the body.

Artist: Dot Dawson

Description of Work/Material: Digital image

Lead-Safety Message: Old lighthouses, fences, bridges and public buildings are usually painted with lead paint. Don’t let children eat paint flakes or even run their fingers over chalking paint, when you’re out and about.

Artist: Tara Chetty

Description of Work/Material: Digital image

Lead-Safety Message: The most important lead test at any age, is a blood lead test – ask your doctor.

Artist: Philippa Bolton

Description of Work/Material: Digital image

Lead-Safety Message: Catalytic converters reduce auto-emissions by 50-90% and when leaded petrol is no longer sold in a country, catalytic converters can be made mandatory in new vehicles.

Artist: Zac Gethin-Damon

Description of Work/Material: iPhone Photo, Phoster poster, Photoshop, ALsee to reduce file size