Artist: Jenny Rowbotham

Lead-safety Message: This is where my journey began with lead and I’ve spent more than 40 years telling my story so this cycle of lead mine lead poisoning can be broken. New lead mines are not going to fulfil any of the promises broken repeatedly by existing lead mines and by the governments that support mines instead of people. 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, like wise First Nations Australians have done for tens of thousands of years.

Description of Work: Poster with a photo of my sons’ first back yard beside the mine train line in Gaffney Street, and the Melissa Sweet SMH 12^th April 1997 article Mother blames mine trains for three frail sons.

Artist: Joshua Quarters

Age: 11

School Name: Creative Einstein

Lead-safety Message: Our Earth is so beautiful so let’s make it lead-safe and climate-safe.

Description of Work: Coloured quilling paper cut, curled, and glued to a board.

Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien

Lead-safety Message: Even though I can never win a Volcano Art Prize (VAP) Pictureproducts mug (because I’m the founder of VAP), it makes me so happy every time I have 8 cups of tea a day (for lead detox hydration) from my mother’s prize mugs.

Description of Work: iPhone 13 Selfie – Elizabeth O’Brien, aka Grandma Lead.

Artist: Danny Wang

Age: 7

School Name: Creative Einstein

Lead-safety Message: May every new year bring you lower blood and bone lead levels. Wishing you a long and healthy life.

Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing.

Artist: Danny Wang

Age: 7

School Name: Creative Einstein

Lead-safety Message: Did you know a Lead-Spitting Cobra is a weapon in the video game Torchlight? It kills by lead poisoning its victims.

Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper. Collaged in Powerpoint and Paint. Lead-Safety Message from Wikipedia.

Artist: Victor Burrows

Age: 11

School Name: Creative Einstein

Lead-safety Message: Look out for degraded paint on handrails and bridges in your area and report it to the Council so little kids and wildlife don’t touch it or eat it. It could be lead paint!

Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper.

Artist: Azalea Manttan

Age: 2

Lead-safety Message: Beautiful coloured things for children to use should never be leaded.

Description of Work: Collage of lead-safe recycled items.

Artist: Rishab Vohra

Age: 10

School Name: Creative Einstein

Lead-safety Message: Lead The heart is a target organ for lead impacts so check your blood lead level annually or more frequently if your blood pressure goes up and detox the lead from your bone stores safely to prevent heart attack.

Description of Work: Coloured quilling paper cut, curled, and glued to a board.

Artist: Leo Manttan

Age: 5

Lead-safety Message: My parents keep me safe from lead and other toxic metals.

Description of Work: Non-toxic paints.

Artist: Julia Jia

Age: 11

School Name: Creative Einstein

Lead-safety Message: All the planetary signs are pointing to dangerous and cascading effects, with many areas experiencing simultaneous multiple impacts due to climate change if two degrees Celsius of warming is allowed to occur due to burning fossil fuels.

Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper. Lead Safety Message from Wikipedia.