Prize Winning & Highly Commended Entries in
Volcano Art Prize 2024
Many thanks to our sponsor Pictureproducts, all our entrants and the
VAP 2024 Judge, “Skip” and his
assistant Pen Starr!
Note: this list shows the Volcano Art Prize (VAP)
2024 entries, in the approximate order that they
appeared on the website (see the number
preceding each image below) when the VAP 2024
Judge, “Skip”, judged them. Skip’s high
commendations and decisions on the Joint First
Prize winners of the $400 ($200 each) cash prize,
and the winners of the 30 Pictureproducts mugs
from our sponsor , have
been marked on this list.
Due to a glitch in the Facebook Likes buttons on
www.volcanoartprize.com this year, the winner of
the People’s Choice cash prize of $200 will be
announced later this year once entrants have had a
chance to ask their networks to vote (now that the
Thumbs Up logo at the top of feach entry page is
fixed!
1. LID 28131 mug winner!
Artist: Jayesh Verma
Title: The Baryonyx Dinosaur. Lead-Safety Message: Be aware with frauds. Description of
Work: I have made an installation art using scrap materials, of baryonyx dinosaur who was
a carnivorous dinosaur of the Jurassic period.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/the-baryonyx-dinosaur/
2. LID 28132
Artist: Khangai Davaasuren, Age: 7, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Tulips and Glass Vase. Lead-Safety Message: “The Tulips… weigh me down [like] a
dozen red lead sinkers around my neck.” Don’t be weighed down by lead! Get a blood lead
test and detox yourself. Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper. Lead-Safety
Message from The Tulips poem by Sylvia Plath.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/tulips-and-glass-vase/
3. LID 28133
Artist: Khangai Davaasuren, Age: 7, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Reflecting. Lead-Safety Message: Reflecting on our murky past and our bright future,
I thank The LEAD Group for Australia’s bans on leaded petrol (in 2002) and leaded paint
(in 2021). Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/reflecting/
4. LID 28134
Artist: Khangai Davaasuren, Age: 7, School Name: Creative Einstein,
Title: A Drop In The Ocean. Lead-Safety Message: Every molecule of lead that we put in
the air (by burning fossil fuels, making batteries, shooting bullets, sanding lead paint, etc)
is rained down or washed off the land into the sea, making the concentration of lead in
deep sea mud four times more than naturally occurs in the earth’s crust.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper. Lead-Safety Message from “Lead in the
Environment” by USGS - United States Geological Survey, 1976
https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0957/report.pdf
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/a-drop-in-the-ocean/
5. LID 28135 mug winner!
Artist: Tabitha Ryan, Age: 10, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Vases of Tulips. Lead-Safety Message: Life is heavy enough without adding lead.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/vases-of-tulips/
6. LID 28136
Artist: Nicholas Jeffrey, Age: 10, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Celebration of Life. Lead-Safety Message: From the cradle to the grave, let’s celebrate
our healthy aging and ensure our bodies are not taking in or releasing past lead. Request a
blood lead series at your next medical check-up.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/celebration-of-life/
7. LID 28137 mug winner!
Artist: Nicholas Jeffrey, Age: 10, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Time to Relax. Lead-Safety Message: When Australia is leading the world with
National Lead-Safety Policy, it will be time for The LEAD Group’s Grandma Lead to relax.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/time-to-relax/
8. LID 28139 - Joint First Prize and mug winner!
Artist: Tianyang Zhao, Age: 10, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: City Surf. Lead-Safety Message: Don’t let lead wheel weights or bullets or fishing
sinkers or lead paint or lead oxide powder from vehicle lead acid batteries go from the city
to the surf then settle in the sediments. Lead harms marine life.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper. Reference for Lead-Safety Message: Lead
in the Environment - US Geological Survey Professional Paper 957: Abundance of Lead in
Rocks, Sediments, Fossil Fuels, and Minerals (1970) – includes that 15 parts per million
(ppm) is the average lead concentration in the earth’s crust, but 60 ppm is the average
found in deep sea muds.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/city-surf/
9. LID 28140
Artist: Tianyang Zhao, Age: 10, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Ebony and Ivory. Lead-Safety Message: United States mean blood lead levels are like
the keys of a piano - at every age category the Black population is higher than the White or
Hispanic population.Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper. Reference for Lead-Safety
Message: Pirkle et al 1998 Exposure of the U.S. Population to Lead, 1991-1994 [NHANES III]
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/ebony-and-ivory/
10. LID 28141 mug winner!
Artist: Rishab Vohra, Age: 10, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Sunlight Streaming. Lead-Safety Message: Lead absorbed earlier in life is stored in
your bones and can cause early death including by osteoporosis. A walk in the sunshine
helps your body make Vitamin D for healthy bones and longevity.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/sunlight-streaming/
11. LID 28142 mug winner!
Artist: Danny Wang, Age: 7, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Sharpened Pencils. Lead-Safety Message: If you can stay as lead-free as a pencil,
you’ll have a sharper mind for life! Description of Work: Colouring pencils on
paper.https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/sharpened-pencils/
12. LID 28143 mug winner!
Artist: Danny Wang, Age: 7, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Autumn Landscape. Lead-Safety Message: In the autumn of your life, you can remain
vibrant in mind and body if you just make sure you’re as lead-safe as can be throughout
life! Test for lead in your environment and in water with a LEAD Group Kit from.
https://leadsafeworld.com/leadkits Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/autumn-landscape/
13. LID 28144 mug winner!
Artist: Joshua Quarters, Age: 11, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Tree Shadows. Lead-Safety Message: Lead gets into trees and into us if we’re not
vigilant. Burning fossil fuels and bushfires release lead into the air so a climate-safe planet
will mean a lead-safe world. Don’t let lead cast a shadow on your intellectual abilities. The
world needs a smarter generation to avert the climate crisis. Description of Work:
Colouring pencils on paper. Reference for Lead-Safety Message: The LEAD Group Inc
2023 December – LEAD Action News v21n4 – Model National Lead Safety Policy and
2023 VAP
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/tree-shadows/
14. LID 28146 mug winner!
Artist: Julia Jia, Age: 10, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Tiger Eyes. Lead-Safety Message: The phrase "eye of the tiger" refers to the intense
and focused mindset of a person who is determined and ready to face a challenge such as
making the world lead-safe and climate-safe with resilience and unwavering focus, much
like that of a tiger. Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/tiger-eyes/
15. LID 28150
Artist's Name: Elizabeth O'Brien
Title of Image: Wrought Iron Gate Lead-Safety Message: Just because Australia finally
banned lead paint on 1st October 2021 doesn’t make all the existing lead paint go away!
Protect yourself, your children, pets, soil, backyard chickens and your neighbours by lead
testing paint before lead-safely preparing and repainting, and testing soil and floor dust
wipes after, with a LEAD Group Kit.
Description of Work: iPhone 8 photo.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/wrought-iron-gate/
16. LID 28151 Highly commended
Artist: Elizabeth O'Brien
Title: Leaded PVC Lead-Safety Message: There’s no regulation in Australia that stops lead
being added to PVC. These PVC-coated clothes racks are not weather-fast so have no place
being outside especially if you have young children, pets, backyard chickens or
vegetable/herb gardens. Description of Work: iPhone 13 photo.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/leaded-pvc/
17. LID 28152
Artist: Julia Jia, Age: 10, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Snakes Tongues Lead-Safety Message: Snakes use their forked tongues to help them
smell chemicals in the air in three dimensions and figure out which way to go. If only we
could smell lead and if crawling babies could figure out how to crawl away from it!
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper. Reference for Lead-Safety Message:
Explainer: Why do snakes flick their tongues, 31 July 2014
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/snakes-tongues/
18. LID 28153
Artist: Nicholas Jeffrey, Age: 10, School Name: Creative Einstein,
Title: Blue Snakes Lead-Safety Message: Snakes can be lead poisoned if they eat animals
that have been shot with lead shot or bullets. All leaded ammunition should be replaced
with non-lead ammunition to protect wildlife and pets that are fed shot animals.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper. Reference for Lead-Safety Message:
https://www.aussiepythons.com/threads/lead-poisoning.115931/#post-1502888
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/blue-snakes/
19. LID 27858
Photographer: Elizabeth O’Brien
Title: Grandma Lead meets Dr Aaron Reuben in Broken Hill
Lead-Safety Message: It was truly fabulous to discover Broken Hill with a young and
brilliant academic, Aaron Reuben, who could literally be quintessential in the creation of
my vision: a lead-safe world by 2041!
Description of Work: iPhone8 selfie
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/grandma-lead-meets-dr-aaron-reuben-in-broken-hill/
20. LID 28154 Joint First Prize winner!
Artist: Siobhan Hannigan
Title: Ocean Dumping.
Lead-Safety Message: Watch out! What is dumped in the sea will pollute seawater and
whales and seafood forever! In September 1997 the Pasminco lead zinc smelter in Hobart
stopped dumping jarosite (a waste product containing lead, cadmium, mercury and
arsenic) at sea, after making 9,089 dumpings (a total of 2.4million tonnes) since 6th March
1984. Description of Work: Materials - watercolours and tea bag on paper. References for
Lead-Safety Message: Pasminco Ends Ocean Dumping: Protests led to a ban on ocean
dumping at https://lead.org.au/lanv6n3/lan6n3-16.html; Annual Report Of The LEAD
Group Inc 2002 - Ten Year Review of Objectives at https://lead.org.au/tlgar2002.pdf ;
Sea Dumping in Australia: Historical and Contemporary Aspects at
https://uxo.defence.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/sea-dumping-in-australia-
historical-and-contemporary-aspects.pdf
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/ocean-dumping/
21. LID 28155
Artist: Aidan Hannigan
Title: PVC Hose. Lead Lead-Safety Message: Tell the humans there is lead in the PVC
hoses, but not in the stainless steel hoses! Description of Work: Watercolour painting of
graphite line drawing on paper https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/pvc-hose-lead/
22. LID 28156 mug winner!
Artist: Aidan Hannigan
Title: Chicken Feed. Lead Lead-Safety Message: Tell the humans there is lead in some
commercial chicken feed that can get in to our eggs along with the soil lead from our
backyard chicken run! Description of Work: Watercolour painting of graphite line drawing
on paper
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/chicken-feed-lead/
23. LID 28157 mug winner!
Artist: Haoze (Allen) Li, Age: 11, School: Highgate Primary School
Title: Volcano.
Lead-Safety Message: In our lead-safe future, the only source of lead in air will be
volcanoes! Description of Work: Pencil drawing
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/volcano/
24. LID. 28158
Artist's Name: Joey Caforia, Age: 3.
Title: Lead Glow Up. Lead-Safety Message: An abstract representation of how lead glows
when sprayed with Fluoro-Spec. Description of Work: Black construction paper, glue,
green sand.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/lead-glow-up/
25. LID28159 mug winner!
Artist: Phoenix Jewson, Age: 5. Home-school.
Title: Phoenix Makes a Volcano. Lead-Safety Message: No one can stop lead fumes
spewing out of a volcano, but people who can vote, can sign Lead’s Petition EN6714 -
Circular Economy for Lead. Then we might just be able to stop new lead mines
sending Australian lead out in to the world. Please Sign the petition at
https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6714 before it closes on Wed 04 Dec
2024 11:59 PM (AEDT). Description of Work: Mummy and my magpie Chough helped me
make a volcano out of clay, food dye, vinegar and bicarb soda while the video was
recording on her iPhone and mummy edited it. Click the image at
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/phoenix-makes-a-volcano/ to watch the very
short video at: https://volcanoartprize.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Phoenix-
Makes-a-Volcano.mp4 ; Watch the very short video also at: https://youtu.be/-
vAgJtJontE and https://www.facebook.com/LeadSafeWorld/videos/4040873666143427
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/phoenix-makes-a-volcano/
26. LID 28160Highly commended!
Artist: Tim Pye
Title: Sources of lead Lead-Safety Message: There are many sources of lead that can impact
a child Description of Work: Microsoft Powerpoint
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/sources-of-lead/
27. LID 28163 Highly commended
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien
Title: Petition for our children. Lead Safety Message: #Grandma Lead says: please sign my
Petition EN6714 - Circular Economy for Lead to not only stop new lead mines
digging more lead out of the ground but also start collecting and recycling ALL the lead
already in circulation in Australia. Registered voters can sign the petition at
https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6714 before Wed 04 Dec 2024 11:59 PM
(AEDT).
Description of Work: iPhone 13 photos collaged in Powerpoint
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/petition-for-our-children/
28. LID 28164
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien
Title: pXRF Bone Lead Testing
Lead Safety Message: #Grandma Lead says: In our lead safe future, everyone will have
access to bone lead testing by portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) using a Niton XL3t
GOLDD+ (made by Thermo-Fisher Scientific, USA). And all earthlings should have less
lead in our bones if Australian registered voters sign the Circular Economy for Lead
Petition EN6714. Description of Work: iPhone 13 photo and text added in Powerpoint. Petition
EN6714 is at https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6714 until Wed 04 Dec 2024 11:59
PM (AEDT). https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/pxrf-bone-lead-testing/
29. LID 28165 Highly commended
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien
Title: Daily Lead Detox Foods
Lead Safety Message: I eat 30 different plants plus mushrooms daily and take LivOn Vit C,
Vit D, calcium and magnesium. I experiment with fresh ginger in every meal (then double
the dose), and fresh garlic for brekky and lunch to see if I can get my blood lead level to fall
but if I could have bone lead testing by pXRF, I’d know for sure what works!
Description of Work: iPhone 13 photos collaged in Powerpoint.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/daily-lead-detox-foods/
30. LID 28166 mug winner!
Artist: Nicholas Jeffrey, Age: 11, School Name: Creative Einstein,
Title: Moon dolphin porpoising. Lead Safety Message: Don’t let spilled lead pellets from a
dive weight belt or lead sinkers weigh down our dolphins. Use only stainless steel diving
weights and non-lead fishing sinkers. Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. Lead
Safety Message from Successful Treatment of Lead Toxicosis in a Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops
truncatus).
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/moon-dolphin-porpoising/
31. LID 28167
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien
Title: Safe Use of Lead Crystal Lead Safety Message: #Grandma Lead says: it is possible to
use lead crystal safely, like for cut coriander, rather than filling the second-hand stores and
landfill with it. Just don’t ever keep acidic, alcoholic or hot foods and liquids in it and never
heat drinks in the microwave in it! Description of Work: iPhone 13 photos collaged in
Powerpoint. https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/safe-use-of-lead-crystal/
32. LID 28168
Artist: Danny Wang, Age: 7, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Sunset Trees. Lead-Safety Message: As trees grow they absorb carbon dioxide (CO2),
but if there’s lead in the soil, they also absorb lead that gets released in forest fires. Reduce
energy use and plant more trees to avert a climate crisis.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/sunset-trees/
33. 28169LID mug winner!
Artist: Khangai Davaasuren, Age: 7, School Name: Creative Einstein
Tittle: Temple Stones, Candles and Bamboo Lead-Safety Message: If we all applied the
Buddhist principles of Right Livelihood, Right Thinking, Right Action and Right Speech,
we would soon have a lead-safe, climate-safe world. Description of Work: Colouring
pencils on paper.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/temple-stones-candles-and-bamboo/
34. LID 28170 mug winner!
Artist: Khangai Davaasuren, Age: 7, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House.
Lead-Safety Message: In the murky depths beneath these beautiful icons, lies lead and
other heavy metals in the harbour sediment, which should be mined and recycled and
made into lead acid batteries made of 100% recycled lead.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/sydney-harbour-bridge-and-opera-house/
35. LID 28171 Highly commended
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien
Title: Fabric Sailing Boat Lead Safety Message: Ballast prevents sailboats from being blown
sideways by the wind, and keeps the boat right-side up. Lead poisoning turns a life upside
down. Why can’t boat designers and manufacturers understand it is worth paying more to
replace lead ballast with steel or tungsten ballast? Description of Work: iPhone 13 photo of
bathmat.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/fabric-sailing-boat/
36. LID 28172 Highly commended
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien
Title: Stop Doing the Damaging Stuff Lead Safety Message: As I wrote in our Model
National Lead Safety Policy (2023): David Attenborough says, “The plan is obvious: stop
doing the damaging stuff”. So let’s stop burning fossil fuels, especially leaded fuels like
AvGas, and stop lead poisoning our kids because we need smarter, wiser minds to avert a
climate crisis. Description of Work: iPhone 13 photo of A Life on Our Planet marked up where
lead-safety and climate-safety interact, and collaged with screenshots collaged by Lucinda Curran
and Elizabeth O’Brien from video A Reason for Hope Attenborough 2019.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/stop-doing-the-damaging-stuff/
37. LID 28173
Artist: Zoe Lu. Age: 7. School: Creative Einstein.
Title: Pumpkin Superfood. Lead-Safety Message: Pumpkins are a superfood because
they're high in many nutrients essential for a well-functioning body, including: fiber,
carotenoids, potassium, vitamins A, E, and C, omega-3 fatty acids, zinc, selenium, iron,
magnesium, and beta-carotene… all the nutrients you need to prevent absorption of lead
and help detox lead. Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. Lead-Safety Message
from https://www.webmd.com/diet/health-benefits-pumpkin
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/pumpkin-superfood/
38. LID 28174
Artist: Elizabeth O'Brien
Title: Stained Glass Lead-Safety Message: Stained glass can be beautiful without being
leadlighting. The lead cames (black lines made of lead) between the stained glass pieces in
leadlighting pose a real hazard to young children, especially if sun has oxidised the lead.
Use a LEAD Group Kit to test surface dust wipes near leadlighting or just replace it with
non-leaded windows.Description of Work: iPhone 13 photo and #Grandma Lead wisdom.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/stained-glass/
39. LID 28175 mug winner!
Artist: Jennifer Chua. Age: 13. School: Creative Einstein
Title: Three Skull Kings Lead-Safety Message: Lead stored in your bones can actually kill
you so contribute to or join The LEAD Group’s project to have bone lead testing available
in Australia by portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) by October 2025.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing collaged in Powerpoint.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/three-skull-kings/
40. LID 28176 Highly commended
Artist's Rachel Gardner Farmer
Title:Fall Leaves
Lead-Safety Message: Kids’ blood lead levels tend to rise in the summer and fall in the fall.
Everyone’s blood lead level tends to rise as we age, so ask the doctor to test your level
annually at the same season each year as you age. Description of Work: Photograph mobile
phone https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/fall-leaves/
41. LID 28177 mug winner!
Artist: Tommy Chuah, Age: 11. School: Creative Einstein
Title: Kookaburra. Lead-Safety Message: Unbelievably, dozens of kookaburras and other
wild birds and animals have been used for shooting practice in far North Queensland. If
they don’t die outright, lead shot pellets cause lead poisoning, which is too cruel so they are
euthanised. Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. Lead-Safety Message from
Wildlife carers' plea for action to stop people shooting native birds from
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-22/wildlife-carers-say-shooting-of-native-birds-
common/101796954
42. LID 28178 mug winner!
Artist: Tommy Chuah. Age: 11. School: Creative Einstein
Title: Sweet Things Lead-Safety Message: Sweet kids draw sweet things like daisies, ladybeetles
and cake, with non-toxic pencils. Yay for lead safety! Description of Work: Coloured pencil
drawing. https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/sweet-things/
43. LID 28179 mug winner!
Artist: Jennifer Chua. Age: 13. School: Creative Einstein
Title: Jellyfish Havoc. Lead-Safety Message: As climate change warms seawater and
burning fuel pollutes it and reduces oxygen levels, and overfishing removes their
predators, many jellyfish species become overpopulous and clog up waterways closing
down nuclear power stations and seabed mining. Reducing your energy use will help to
reduce jellyfish havoc.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing collaged in Powerpoint. Lead-Safety Message from
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2019/01/how-an-explosion-of-jellyfish-is-wreaking-havoc/
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/jellyfish-havoc/
44. LID 28180 mug winner!
Artist: Devrim Yasar. Age: 10. School: Creative Einstein
Title: Red Roses Lead-Safety Message: Red roses are given to people you love just as a
lead-safe home is a gift to your children to help them reach their intelligence and longevity
potentials. Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing collaged in Paint and
Powerpoint. https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/red-roses/
45. LID 28181 mug winner!
Artist: Zoe Lu. Age: 7. School: Creative Einstein
Title: Panda. Lead-Safety Message: Lead exposure bad. Lead-safety good. It’s as black and
white as a panda. Sign Grandma Lead’s Petition EN6714 - Circular Economy for
Lead to keep Australian lead in the ground where it is safe. Go to
https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6714 before it closes on Wed 04 Dec
2024 11:59 PM (AEDT). Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/panda/
46. LID 28182 mug winner!
Artist: Zoe Lu. Age: 7. School: Creative Einstein
Title: Butterflies and Tulips. Lead-Safety Message: In the 1920s when tetra ethyl lead
(TEL) was first made, the factory became known as the House of the Butterflies as lead
poisoned workers had hallucinations and went insane or died. When will we stop using
TEL in aviation fuel (AvGas)? Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing collaged in
Paint and Powerpoint. Lead Safety Message from The House of the Butterflies: Lead
Poisoning among Workers and Consumers. https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-
item/butterflies-and-tulips/
47. LID 28183
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien
Title: Lue Water Protection Ceremony Lead-Safety Message: Grandma Lead was inspired
by this first nations protection of the waters ceremony at Lue, the site of Bowdens
proposed lead mine on a very rainy day on 4th Oct 2023, to create the Petition EN6714 -
Circular Economy for Lead to stop new lead mines being approved. Please Sign the
petition at https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6714 before it closes on Wed
04 Dec 2024 11:59 PM (AEDT). Description of Work: Collage of selfie & iphone 13 photos
from Lue, near Mudgee, NSW. https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/lue-water-
protection-ceremony/
48. LID 28184
Artist: Danny Wang, Age: 7, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: New Year. 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 https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/new-year/
49. LID 28185
Artist: Jennifer Chuah, Age: 13, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Red Peace Lilies. Lead-Safety Message: For thousands of years humans have mined
lead and for hundreds of years we’ve fought wars with lead ammunition. Peace means less
lead will be used in bullets, missiles and as radiation shielding for nuclear weapons.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing collaged in Paint and Powerpoint.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/red-peace-lilies/
50. LID 28186 mug winner!
Artist: Azalea Manttan, Age: 2
Title: Recycled Collage Lead-Safety Message: My parents keep me safe from lead and other
toxic metals. Description of Work: Collage of lead-safe recycled items.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/recycled-collage/
51. LID 28187 mug winner!
Artist: Leo Manttan, Age: 5
Title: Abstract Painting. Lead-Safety Message: My parents keep me safe from lead and
other toxic metals. Description of Work: Non-toxic paints.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/abstract-painting/
52. LID 28188 Highly commended
Artist: Elizabeth O'Brien
Title: Sea Level Rise Lead-Safety Message: Take steps today to reduce your fossil fuel
burning to slow the rate of sea level rise and lead pollution of the land and oceans.
Description of Work: iPhone 13 photo. Lead-Safety Message from
https://theconversation.com/burning-fossil-fuels-is-responsible-for-most-sea-level-rise-
since-1970-57286#
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/sea-level-rise-2/
53. LID 28189 Highly commended
Artist: Elizabeth O'Brien
Title: Lead Paint Recycling Lead-Safety Message: 1. Strip old paint safely 2. Recycle lead
paint waste. 3. Make lead acid batteries from 100% recycled lead. These are some of the
steps towards a Circular Economy for Lead. If you’re an Australian voter, please sign
my Petition EN6714 at https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6714 before it
closes on Wed 04 Dec 2024 11:59 PM (AEDT) Description of Work: iPhone 13 photo.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/lead-paint-recycling/
54. LID 28190
Artist: Elizabeth O'Brien
Title: Avoid strokes as you age Lead-Safety Message: My motivation for asking people to
join me in self-experimenting with lead detox methods and now pushing for bone lead
testing by pXRF in Australia, is my mother. She had notifiable (5-7 ug/dL) blood lead
levels between 5 strokes in her final 21 years, the first stroke when she was just three years
older than I am now. Description of Work: iPhone 8 photos collaged in Paint and
Powerpoint.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/avoid-strokes-as-you-age/
55. LID 28191
Artist: Elizabeth O'Brien
Title: Glass Mugs Lead-Safety Message: #Grandma Lead says use only glass mugs for
acidic or alcoholic hot drinks. Never ceramic or pewter or crystal glasses which will leach
lead into the drink. One client in 2024 was seriously lead poisoned by adding boiling water
to lemon juice in a ceramic mug and replenishing the hot water for drinks throughout the
day. Description of Work: iPhone 13 photo. Poster made in Powerpoint.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/glass-mugs/
Elizabeth O'Brien Glass Mugs.jpg
56. LID 28192
Artist: Elizabeth O'Brien
Title: Lead from helicopters Lead-Safety Message: #Grandma Lead says non-turbo
helicopters use leaded AvGas and some fire suppressants dropped from Fire Fighting
helicopters may be contaminating the environment they’re working to protect, with lead
and other toxic heavy metals. Description of Work: iPhone 13 photo. Lead-Safety Message
from Metals in Wildfire Suppressants.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/lead-from-helicopters /
57. LID 28193 mug winner!
Artist: Tianyang Zhao, Age: 11, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Pikachu Lead-Safety Message: Just as Pikachu is brave in the face of countless
challenges, young people like Greta Thunberg are brave when she says things like: “I want
you to panic, I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act, I want
you to act as if you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if the house was on fire, because it
is.” Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. Lead-Safety Message from: Greta
Thunberg quotes.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/pikachu/
58. LID 28194
Artist: Tianyang Zhao, Age: 11, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Blue Crab. Lead-Safety Message: Blue crabs are eaten by fish, bigger crabs,
mammals, birds and turtles so its lucky that crabs are generally lower in lead and mercury
than other sea creatures.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. Lead-Safety Message from: Lead, Mercury
and What Sea Animal Eats Blue Crabs?
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/blue-crab/
59. LID 28195
Artist: Julia Jia, Age: 10, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Pointing. 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.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/pointing/
60. LID 28196 mug winner!
Artist: Rishab Vohra, Age: 10, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Heart. Lead-Safety Message: 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.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/heart-2/
61. LID 28197 mug winner!
Artist: Joshua Quarters, Age: 11, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: I Love Earth. 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.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/i-love-earth/
62. LID 28198
Artist: Azalea Manttan, Age: 2
Title: Arrangements Lead-Safety Message: Beautiful coloured things for children to use
should never be leaded. Description of Work: Collage of lead-safe recycled items.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/arrangements/
63. LID 28199
Artist: Julia Jia, Age: 11, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Pelican Lead-Safety Message: Pelicans die of lead poisoning when they ingest lead
shot or lead fishing tackle/sinkers. Small sinkers (under 2cm diameter) are most often
consumed. All leaded ammunition and fishing sinkers should be banned and fished out of
sediments so our pelicans can live. Description of Work: Coloured quilling paper cut,
curled, and glued to a board. Lead-Safety Message from Effects of lead ammunition and
sinkers on wildlife.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/pelican/
64. LID 28200 mug winner!
Artist: Victor Burrows, Age: 11, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Bridge Lookout. 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.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/bridge-lookout/
65. LID 28201
Artist: Danny Wang, Age: 7, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Cobra. 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.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/cobra/
66. LID 28202
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien
Title: VAP Keepsakes 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.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/vap-keepsakes/
67. LID 28203 mug winner!
Artist: Jenny Rowbotham
Title: Broken Hill Lead Dust. 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 12th April 1997
article Mother blames mine trains for three frail sons.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/broken-hill-lead-dust/
68. LID 28216 mug winner!
Artist: Jayne Bentivoglio
Title: Protesting against the Lead mine at Lue
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.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/protesting-against-the-lead-mine-at-lue/
