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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!
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 96 of 131
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/
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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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 98 of 131
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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 99 of 131
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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 100 of 131
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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 101 of 131
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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 102 of 131
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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 103 of 131
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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 104 of 131
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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 105 of 131
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-
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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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 107 of 131
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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 108 of 131
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
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 109 of 131
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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 110 of 131
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/
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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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 112 of 131
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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 113 of 131
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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 114 of 131
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/
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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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 116 of 131
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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 117 of 131
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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 118 of 131
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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 119 of 131
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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 120 of 131
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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 121 of 131
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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 122 of 131
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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 123 of 131
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 /
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 124 of 131
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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 125 of 131
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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 126 of 131
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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 127 of 131
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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 128 of 131
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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 129 of 131
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/
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LEAD Action News Volume 22 Number 4 December 2024 Page 130 of 131
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/
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