Entries in Volcano Art Prize 2025 – including Prize
Winning & Highly Commended Images
Many thanks to our sponsor Pictureproducts, all our entrants and the
VAP 2025 Judge, Artist, Michael
Maratea!
Note: this list shows the Volcano Art Prize (VAP)
2025 entries, in the approximate order that they
appeared on the website
https://volcanoartprize.com/
(see the LID or LEAD Group Library Identification
number preceding each image below) when the
VAP 2025 Judge, Michael, judged them.
Michael’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. Congratulations to cash winners: Leo
Manttan and stop-motion video-makers Phoenix
and Alex Jewson from Australia!
Once people clicked the thumbs-up buttons on
their favourite 2025 VAP entries at www.volcanoartprize.com up to the voting deadline of Thurs 20th Nov
2025, the winner of the People’s Choice cash prize of $200 was determined to be Paula Jacobe, Age: 10,
from the Philippines.
LID 28874
Artist: Zoe Lu, Age 7, School: Creative Einstein
Title: Palm Island
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.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/palm-island/
LID 28881
Artist: Benji Muthukrishna, Age: 8, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Palm Islands Sunrise
Lead-Safety Message: Indigenous Australians such as those living on Palm Island, 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.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/palm-islands-sunrise/
LID 28882
Artist: Benji Muthukrishna, Age: 8, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Avocado Halves
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/#
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/avocado-halves/
Highly Commended by the Judge LID 28883
Artist's Name: Benji Muthukrishna, Age: 8, School Name: Creative Einstein,
Title: Coloured Shapes
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.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/coloured-shapes/
Highly Commended by the Judge LID 28884
Artist's Name: David Suh, Age: 10, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: I Love Avocados
Lead-Safety Message: Tree fruits like avocados are not lead contaminated even when their soil is,
and the carotenes in the yellow flesh may help remove lead from the body.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/i-love-avocados/
LID 28885
Artist's Name: Zoe Lu, Age: 7, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Shape Shadows
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
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/shape-shadows/
LID 28888
Artist: Zoe Lu, Age: 7, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Z is for Zoe
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/#
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/z-is-for-zoe/
LID 28889
Artist: Benji Muthukrishna, Age: 8, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: B is for Benji.
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.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/b-is-for-benji/
LID 28890
Artist: David Suh, Age: 10, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: D is for David
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 - Vitamin D - Nutrition to
Fight Lead Poisoning, in LEAD Action News vol 10 no 2 (LANv10n2), by Robert Taylor, The
LEAD Group Inc.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/d-is-for-david/
Highly Commended by the Judge LID 28891
Artist: Zoe Lu, Age: 7, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Plain Sailing
Lead-Safety Message: Once lead-using industries like aviation fuel additive and paint
manufacturers stop adding lead to their products to increase their profits, and we work out how to
collect or abate all the lead contamination in children’s environments, growing up unleaded will be
plain sailing.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/plain-sailing/
mug winner! LID 28892
Artist's Name: Benji Muthukrishna, Age: 8, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Sunset Clause
Lead-Safety Message: Australia needs a sunset clause, meaning a legislated date to cease the use of
leaded aviation fuel. A good date would be 2030 or earlier.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/sunset-clause/
LID 28893
Artist: Benji Muthukrishna, Age: 8, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: New Era in China
Lead-Safety Message: Unlike in the past in China, when the industrial chelator TMT was mixed
into contaminated sewage the TMT completely passivated the heavy metals so that food crop plants
fertilised by the treated sewage were free of heavy metals, including lead.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper. Lead-Safety Message from www.leadtox.blog
by Dr Ulrich Mack.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/new-era-in-china/
Highly Commended by the Judge LID 28894
Artist: David Suh, Age: 10, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Past the Point
Lead-Safety Message: If we can stop kids being lead poisoned and get the lead out of everyone, we
can create a global population smart enough to avert a climate crisis. We are not yet past the point
of no return.
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/past-the-point/
Highly Commended by the Judge LID 28895
Artist: Zoe Lu, Age: 7, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Every New Year
Lead-Safety Message: Every new year brings more global warming and climate disturbances. What
are you going to do this year to avert the crisis? Move your money to a green bank, invest in super
that doesn’t invest in fossil fuels, switch from gas to electricity, get solar panels, …?
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/every-new-year/
mug winner! LID 28896
Artist: Zoe Lu, Age: 7, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Flying
Lead-Safety Message: Whether they fly across the sun or the moon, over the land or the oceans,
earth’s creatures all depend on us to keep their home lead-safe and avoid a climate crisis.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/flying/
Highly Commended by the Judge LID 28897
Artist: Benji Muthukrishna, Age: 8, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Moonlit Dolphin Porpoising
Lead-Safety Message: Let dolphins thrive in the moonlight, not die by stranding themselves on
beaches. Heavy metal exposure like lead, mercury and cadmium, has been linked to degenerative
heart disease, immunodeficiency and increased parasite infestations, among other disease risks in
stranded dolphins and whales. Keep heavy metals out of stormwater and the sea!
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. Lead Safety Message from
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/02/240221160407.htm - Toxic elements
found in stranded whales, dolphins over 15 years.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/moonlit-dolphin-porpoising/
mug winner! LID 28898
Artist: Anne Roberts, Age: 93.
Title: Toddler with Toys
Lead-Safety Message: A LEAD Group Kit is a fantastic tool for detecting lead in a toddler’s
environment through lab analysis of surface dust wipes from the playfloor and window sill, bare
soil, water from brass taps installed in the last 3 years, from rain tanks or bores, paint, toy paint and
ceiling cavity dust or vacuum dust.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils and pen on paper. Lead-Safety Message from:
https://leadsafeworld.com/solutions/lead-group-diy-sampling-lab-analysis-lead-test-kits/
by The LEAD Group Inc.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/toddler-with-toys/
LID 28899
Artist: Elizabeth O'Brien
Title: Pectin in Marmalade
Lead-Safety Message: Marmalade and other cooked citrus peel foods are a rich source of pectin
which is a lead detox nutrient. Excellent when paired with high fibre wholemeal high-mineral
seeded bread or toast.
Description of Work: iPhone photo of Lyn Bearlin's home-made marmalade. Lead-Safety Message
from: https://lead.org.au/fs/Foods_for_Lead_Detox_A-Z_20150214.pdf - Foods for Lead
Detox - Alphabetical list of foods rich in the nutrients which fight lead poisoning and List of how
those Nutrients help fight lead poisoning by The LEAD Group Inc.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/pectin-in-marmalade/
LID 28900
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien
Title: Broken Hill Ore Trains
Lead-Safety Message: After more than a century of uncovered ore trains (inset) spreading toxic lead
and other heavy and radioactive metals through Broken Hill and all along the train line to Port Pirie
smelter, Jenny Rowbotham led a successful campaign to get the ore trucks covered so today you
can see green trains snaking through the town between the mine waste dumps or line of lode (on the
right) and nearby heavily contaminated residences.
Description of Work: iPhone8 colour photo and inset from
https://digital.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/nodes/view/300 - Broken Hill Ore Train circa 1951.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/broken-hill-ore-trains/
LID 28596
Artist: Louise Eaton
Title: Stop the Arms Trade
Lead Safety Message: Apart from preventing death and destruction, we need a world without war in
order to stop spreading lead. Mega tons of lead are in ammunition, missiles, landmines and other
weapons.
Description of Work: Collage of Anti-War Postcards published by Quaker Peace & Service, United
Kingdom
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/stop-the-arms-trade/
LID 28901
Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien
Title: Ban Lead Ammunition
Lead-Safety Message: Lead from ammunition is a threat to everyone's health (Hampton
2021). “Child blood lead was positively associated with household firearm ownership” in Firearm-
Related Lead Exposure and Child Lead Levels in the United States, 2012-2018 (Hoover et
al 2024). Study Links Childhood Lead Exposure to Later Gun Violence (Hess 2019). EU
regulation: An unprecedented opportunity to protect children’s and wildlife health from
the toxic effects of lead ammunition (Pain et al 2025).
Description of Work: Photo of spent lead bullet casings in a home.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/ban-lead-ammunition/
mug winner! LID 28902
Artist: Lyn Hartwig
Title: Inspired by Children
Lead-Safety Message: My friend Elizabeth O’Brien was inspired by her children to dedicate the rest
of her life to our lead-safe future. Prevention of lead poisoning is her goal for all.
Description of Work: Photo
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/inspired-by-children/
Highly Commended by the Judge LID 28903
Artist: Danny Wang, Age: 8, School: Creative Einstein
Title: Monstera Deliciosa
Lead-Safety Message: Even when Monstera deliciosa is grown in lead-contaminated soil, the fruit
called “Mexican breadfruit” is safe to eat because plants don’t put lead in their fruits. Just wash
those monstera tiny spikes out under running water!
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing on paper
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/monstera-deliciosa/
mug winner! LID 28904
Artist: Rishab Vohra, Age: 12, School: Creative Einstein
Title: Clown Fish
Lead-Safety Message: “Lead (Pb) is a highly toxic metal in aquatic environments. Fish are at the
top of the food chain in most aquatic environments, and are the most susceptible to the toxic effects
of Pb exposure.”
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing on paper. Lead-Safety Message from Toxic effects
of lead exposure on bioaccumulation, oxidative stress, neurotoxicity, and immune responses in fish:
A review, from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30884452/
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/clown-fish/
mug winner! LID 28905
Artist: Jennifer Chuah, Age: 14, School: Creative Einstein
Title: Sushi
Lead-Safety Message: A Polish study found high lead and nickel levels in sushi and high levels of
lead, nickel, cadmium and arsenic in nori – the red algae that is shredded, rack-dried and made into
flat sheets and used to wrap sushi. None of the samples tested contained mercury. If you eat a lot of
nori or sushi, ask your doctor for a blood lead series to find out if your sushi is heavy metal
contaminated.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing on paper. Lead-safety Message from Heavy Metals
in Sushi and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nori - Wikipedia.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/sushi/
LID 28906
Artist: Tim Pye
Title: Lead is a crime
Lead-Safety Message: There is no lead on this roof. Not because of toxicity concerns but because
lead might get stolen. Lead increases criminality and the lead flashing on a roof provides the
opportunity for crime.
Description of Work: Photograph of a sign on a wall.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/lead-is-a-crime/
- mug winner! LID 28707
Artist: Anna Mutton
Title: Still Waters Heavy Metals
Lead Safety Message: This artwork, created using lead-free materials, depicts an aurora arcing
gently over a quiet mountain range and undisturbed lake. But beneath the surface of this serene
landscape lies a deeper reflection - on the unseen toxins that threaten both nature and our health.
Many of our water sources are no longer as pure as they appear. Lead continues to leach into
drinking water systems, homes and environments. Just as the aurora responds to invisible solar
winds, our ecosystems react to pollutants we can't always see.
Description of Work: Watercolour and acrylic paint on watercolour paper.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/still-waters-heavy-metals/
mug winner! LID 28907
Artist: Phoenix Jewson, Age: 5, Home-Schooled
Title: Rainbow the Turtle
Lead Safety Message: Climate change significantly impacts coral reef ecosystems through ocean
warming, acidification, and altered weather patterns, leading to coral bleaching, reduced growth,
and increased mortality among fish, turtles, crabs and seahorses. Get your lead-free energy from the
sun like we do at our farm.
Description of Work: crayon and watercolour drawing.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/rainbow-the-turtle/
Judged as the best painting and mug winner! LID 28908
Artist: Phoenix Jewson, Age: 6, Home-Schooled
Title: Horned Owl
Lead Safety Message: Great horned owls are opportunistic predators that hunt mainly mammals like
rats, mice, rabbits, ground squirrels, opossums, skunks, birds like geese, ducks, hawks, and smaller
owls and also snakes, lizards, frogs, insects, scorpions and even fish. Lead is an opportunistic toxic
that affects mainly the brain, heart and kidneys but also fertility, learning behaviour, balance,
eyesight, hearing and any inherited weakness.
Description of Work: crayon and acrylic paint drawing.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/horned-owl/
LID 28909
Artist: Phoenix Jewson, Age: 5, Home-Schooled
Title: Brachy Umbrella
Lead Safety Message: This is my Brachiosaurus umbrella, me, Scorpius Rex, Pyro, puddles, rain
and a rainbow. Eating nutritious foods like quail eggs, berries and vegetables we grow on our farm
protects me from any lead in my shop-bought food or my environment.
Description of Work: cut-out printed photos, fabric, crayon and watercolour paint drawing.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/brachy-umbrella/
File Name: Phoenix Jewson Brachy Umbrella.JPG
mug winner! LID 28910
[Go to https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/farm-chores/ and click on the image
online to watch the short video]
Artists: Justine Cooney (Film-maker) & Phoenix Jewson (Talent), Age: 5, Home-Schooled
Title: Farm Chores
Lead Safety Message: I have fun doing my daily chores in the lead-safe food garden and farm
mummy has created for us, the quail, pigeons and chickens, cows, horses, rescued possum and
magpie, by choosing low lead commercial stock feeds and testing with a LEAD Group Kit to ensure
our soil and bore and rainwater all have low to non-detectable lead.
Description of work: Video shot on iPhone, edited in Splice with music from Shuttershock (licensed
by Splice video editing app).
URL: Farm Life with Phoenix Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@FarmLife.13 -
this short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nWILZALxGU
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/farm-chores/
. mug winner! LID 28911
Artist: Anne Roberts, Age: 93.
Title: Wooden Birds
Lead-Safety Message: We’ve long known that birds and trees can be poisoned by lead. Each tree
ring records a year of growth, but also a year of pollution. By measuring lead in the rings,
researchers can reconstruct the rise and fall of airborne lead across decades.
Description of Work: Birds sculpted from wood in pieces and bolted/glued together. Message
adapted from Professor Bruce Lanphear’s August 26, 2025 Substack -
https://blanphear.substack.com/p/times-toxic-signature - The Chronicles of Lead Toxicity:
A History Cast in Fire, Frozen in Ice.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/wooden-birds/
Joint First Prize and mug winner! LID 28912
[Go to https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/gryposuchus-conquers-dilophosaurus/
and click on the image online to watch the short video]
Artists: Alex and Phoenix Jewson, Age: 5, Home-Schooled
Title: Gryposuchus Conquers Dilophosaurus
Lead-Safety Message: Just as Gryposuchus waits on the sidelines until Dilophosaurus has grown
closer and closer, oral EDTA chelation has been around for 70 years and only now is poised to
conquer lead poisoning globally – if only biscuit-makers and bread-bakers would come to the party
and add this iron fortificant to commercially available foods that kids and adults like to eat daily.
And in the background, lead-safety advocates will still be fighting to reduce lead emissions and
make a circular economy for all lead products.
Description of Work: Stop-motion video.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/gryposuchus-conquers-dilophosaurus/
LID 28913
[Go to https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/harvesting-broccoli/ and click on the
image online to watch the short video]
Artists: Justine Cooney (Film-maker) & Phoenix Jewson (Talent), Age: 6, Home-Schooled
Title: Harvesting Broccoli
Lead-safety Message: We used a LEAD Group Kit to find out our farm soil is good and low in
lead. The LEAD Group says broccoli is a great lead detox food, but in Port Pirie, children and
pregnant women are told not to eat home-grown “leafy vegetables like lettuce, silverbeet, cabbage,
broccoli and cauliflower”. Instead, they could treat the soil with RC3 Yard N Garden Potassium
Humate to bind the lead to the soil, and then start eating their leafy greens and backyard eggs!
Description of work: Video shot on iPhone, edited in Splice with music from Shuttershock (licensed
by Splice video editing app). URLs: Farm Life with Phoenix Youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/@FarmLife.13 - this short film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e72-HU0A4k. Message from Pregnant women and
parents misled about dangers of living with lead pollution. Broccoli is a good source of:
Alpha-linolenic acid (ALA); is rich in Calcium, Vitamin C and Carotenoids; and contains
cysteine, a precursor of glutathione which detoxifies the brain and liver
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/harvesting-broccoli/
LID 28914
[Go to https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/put-children-first/ and click on the image
online to watch the short video]
Artist/Presenter: Ralph Spezio, School Principal
Title: Put Children First
Lead Safety Message: When we have slain the lead monster, we will truly know we have put
children first. When I found out that 100% of the 3-, 4- and 5-yr old special ed students at my
school in Rochester USA had been found at age one or two to have blood lead levels above 10
µg/dL, I became a founding member of the Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning. Stay informed
with our newsletter at https://theleadcoalition.org/
Description of Work: TEDxRochester Ralph Spezio video 1st Nov 2010 - screenshots including
learning and behavioral problems caused by lead, and three simple solutions, collaged in
Powerpoint and Paint.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/put-children-first/
37. mug winner! The Judge thought this was by a child which is his
highest form of praise considering he prefers children’s art over adult’s art. Siobhan is actually a
grandmother and child psychologist who often does art with her clients! LID 28915
Artist: Siobhan Hannigan
Title: Be Aware
Lead-Safety Message: If lead is there… then BE AWARE. To help make the world lead safe, you
can donate to The LEAD Group’s LEAF fund at https://leadsafeworld.com/contribute/
Description of Work: Ink drawing with watercolour and leaf.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/be-aware/
File Name: Siobhan Hannigan Be Aware.jpeg
mug winner! LID 28916
Artist: Azalea Manttan, Age: 3
Title: Living Things
Lead-Safety Message: All living things deserve to be protected from lead. Use a LEAD Group Kit
to test backyard eggs, water, soil, surface dust wipes, etc and treat any lead contaminated soil with
RC3 Yard N Garden Activated Humate for application to plants and soil to bind the lead in
and reduce egg lead levels.
Description of Work: Texta drawing on newsprint on coloured ink stamped paper.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/living-things/
Highly Commended by the Judge LID 28917
Artist: Leo Manttan, Age: 6
Title: Family
Lead-Safety Message: Families that stay lead-safe together, thrive together. To leave a legacy of
supporting lead safety, ask your will’s lawyer to add a bequest to your will of a percentage of your
estate or other gift to The LEAD Group Inc ABN 25819463114.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing on paper.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/family/
Joint First Prize and mug winner! LID 28918
Artist: Leo Manttan, Age: 6
Title: Leaded Zebrafish
Lead-Safety Message: Researchers use see-thru zebrafish embryos to find out that high lead
concentrations in the water cause death for 4 out of 5 fish eggs and even low lead levels cause faster
heart beats and bending of the spine. Calcium ion rescue drugs can reverse the damage. Better
still… let’s prevent lead pollution of water!
Description of Work: Texta drawings cut and collaged with cardboard and paper cut-outs on painted
paper. Lead-Safety Message from Lead Exposure Causes Spinal Curvature during
Embryonic Development in Zebrafish.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/leaded-zebrafish/
LID 28919
Artist: Grandma Lead
Title: Test Shooters for Lead
Lead-Safety Message: A possibly lead poisoned shooter confessed on September 11, 2025 to
assassinating Charlie Kirk. As a 3rd year electrical apprentice, the 22 year old shooter would have
been protected from occupational lead exposure but there need to be regulations to protect child
shooters from lead exposure that can cause frontal lobe damage, homicidal violent crime and
brainrot incoherence. US criminologists and lead poisoning prevention advocates need to write to
their congressional representatives demanding that he and all indicted shooters be bone lead and
blood lead tested ASAP after being taken in to custody.
Description of Work: Collage of photos from YouTube video by The Rational National, Meme'd
To Death: The Brainrot Incoherence Of Charlie Kirk's Alleged Killer, September 14, 2025.
Lead-Safety Message by Elizabeth O’Brien, AKA Grandma Lead.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/test-shooters-for-lead/
Highly Commended by the Judge LID 28920
Artist: Leo Manttan, Age: 6.
Title: Green Future
Lead-Safety Message: For me and my little sister to have a green future, we need all the adults in all
the countries to stop mining lead and burning fossil fuels, and switch to renewable energy and for
someone to invent 100% recycled lead products.
Description of Work: Painting over lead pencil drawing.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/green-future/
People’s Choice cash prize winner and mug winner!
LID 28921
Artist: Paula Jacobe, Age: 10.
Title: Earth Under Attack
Lead-Safety Message: Lead may be invisible, but its damage costs 6-9% of global gross domestic
product (GDP). It poisons the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the soil that grows our food.
Let’s protect our planet and our children—say no to lead, say yes to a safer tomorrow.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil and pen drawing. GDP estimate from Global health burden
and cost of lead exposure in children and adults - A health impact and economic
modelling analysis (2023).
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/earth-under-attack/
mug winner! LID 28922
Artist: Claire Leight
Title: Woman on a Mission
Lead-Safety Message: For thirty-five years, Elizabeth O’Brien has NOT turned her back on her
campaign to rid the world of lead poisoning. I thank her.
Description of Work: Oil on canvas 122cm x 92cm.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/woman-on-a-mission/
mug winner! LID 28923
Artist: Claire Leight
Title: On a Clear Day
Lead-Safety Message: If lead could be removed from aviation fuel, all days could look like this.
Description of Work: Digital photo.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/on-a-clear-day/
mug winner! LID 28924
Artist: Khangai Davaasuren, Age: 8, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Semiquavers
Lead-Safety Message: Two semiquavers take the same time as an eighth note or quaver to play.
Children can play lead-safely if parents or grandparents get a LEAD Group Kit from
www.leadsafeworld.com/shop and collect 8 samples for lab lead analysis, including play soil,
dusty indoor surfaces, degraded paint, ceiling cavity dust, water, etc. Take the time now to test, so
children grow up to fulfil their potential.
Description of Work: Coloured quilling paper cut, curled, and glued to a board then collaged in
Paint and Powerpoint.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/semiquavers/
mug winner! LID 28925
Artist: Khangai Davaasuren, Age: 8, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Australian Koala
Lead-Safety Message: They say that there are no Koalas in Lue because they [Bowdens
Silver who’ve proposed a lead mine at Lue, near Mudgee, NSW Australia] want to destroy
400 hectares of prime Koala habitat [if the mine is approved/viable]. Tell that to this guy.
Description of Work: Lead pencil drawing using a lead-free graphite pencil. Message from
Mudgee Region Action Group FB page, 25th March 2025.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/australian-koala/
LID 28936
Artist: Australian Dust Removalists Association (ADRA) Webmaster
Title: ADRA Members Detox Attics
Lead-Safety Message: Solartex and Insulvac in Sydney and Ceiling Alert in Melbourne are
the professionals you need to remove contaminated dust from your home, particularly
before any demolition, building or insulation work is attempted. Ceiling dust can also be
tested for lead, other toxic metals and asbestos prior to removal so you know how toxic the
cavity dust was! With more frequent severe storms forecast, you really don’t want to be like
one of the 20,000 home-owners negatively impacted by ceiling dust in the April 1999
Sydney Hail Storm, before ADRA existed. Go climate resilience and lead-safety!
Description of Work: image downloaded from www.adra.com.au
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/adra-members-detox-attics/
LID 28937
Artist: Australian Dust Removalists Association (ADRA) Webmaster
Title: ADRA Members detox roof spaces
Lead-Safety Message: Member companies of the Australian Dust Removalists Association
have been detoxing the building cavities of homes, schools, churches and other buildings
lead-safely since 1999. Get a quote from an ADRA Member for dust and old insulation
removal and new insulation installation as your next step towards lead-safety and climate-
safety…
Description of Work: Image downloaded from www.adra.com.au
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/adra-members-detox-roof-spaces/
mug winner! LID 28938
Artist/Photographer: Joseph Lee
Title: Solar Ebike
Lead-Safety Message: Because my house has solar panels on the roof and a storage battery
on the wall (inset), my default mode is now ebike to get to pickleball and tennis and I can
even extend my journey by taking it on ferry, light rail and bus trips. Way to go to NOT
contribute to climate change or burn fossil fuels that all emit some lead. Go SOLAR!
Description of Work: “Sticker” of ebike created on iPhone13. Smart phone photos and
sticker collaged in Powerpoint and Paint.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/solar-ebike/
LID 28939
Artist: Grandma Lead aka Elizabeth O’Brien
Title: Grandma Lead Six Lead Test Kits
Lead-Safety Message: These 6 LEAD Group Kits – whether emailed or posted – are making
Australia lead-safe one family at a time – so adaptable! Buy an Emailed LEAD Group Kit to
test paint, toy paint, soil, backyard eggs, commercial chicken feed, ceiling cavity dust,
vacuum dust, food, supplements, complementary medicine, or a Posted Kit to test any of
these and/or surface dust wipes and water samples, for lead, other toxic metals, asbestos,
pH, fluoride and even pesticides.
Description of Work: Screenshots from www.leadsafeworld.com/shop collaged in
Powerpoint and Paint.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/six-lead-test-kits/
mug winner! LID 28940
Artist: Grandma Lead
Title: Insulvac Electric Vehicle
Lead-Safety Message: Being the President of the Australian Dust Removalists Association
since 2004 and a Founding Partner of The LEAD Group’s Lead Safe World Partnership
since 2013, Gavin Clarke of Insulvac clearly takes cleaning up the built environment
seriously. But his fully electric Kia and electric vehicle charging station at the office in
Leichhardt, is the icing on the cake of Insulvac’s achievement of thousands of clean Sydney
roof spaces with insulation installed. If everyone took such steps… goodbye climate crisis,
hello lead-safety!
Description of Work: Lead-Safety Message from https://www.insulvac.com.au/ and
https://www.adra.com.au/ and iPhone 13 photos collaged in Powerpoint and Paint.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/insulvac-electric-vehicle/
LID 28941
Artist: Grandma Lead
Title: Closing the Gap
Lead-Safety Message: The LEAD Group seeks to Close the Gap (in health, education and
justice between First Nations and more recently arrived Australians) by offering a free 8-
Sample LEAD Group Kit to anyone wishing to collect samples which could lead to the
reduction of lead exposure in Indigenous Australians. To take up our offer, please fill in the
form at https://leadsafeworld.com/free-lead-group-kits-for-indigenous-australians/ or
phone freecall 1800 626 086.
Description of Work: Message from www.leadsafeworld.com/shop/ & iPhone 13 photos of
grasstree flower spikes growing closer together as they get higher off the ground, collaged
in Powerpoint and Word.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/closing-the-gap/
LID 28942
Artist: Grandma Lead aka Elizabeth O’Brien
Title: Butterflies Fluttering
Lead-Safety Message: “Passing by butterflies, fluttering for a day” - a line from An ocean of
strange islands, reminds me of 1920s US tetra ethyl lead (TEL) factory workers who were
so lead poisoned they hallucinated butterflies and soon after, died. I pray that the New
Zealand Prime Minister will finally acknowledge and compensate the last one alive of the
manual TEL plant workers, Brian Arndt (who turned 85 in 2025), for his exposure to TEL
at New Zealand Petroleum Refinery 1965-1975.
Description of Work: Screenshot from Nightwish – An ocean of strange islands (official
lyric video) & lyric by Songwriter: Tuomas Holopainen. An Ocean of Strange Islands lyrics
© Sony/ATV Music Publishing. Message from Rebecca Skloot’s Houses of Butterflies, Jan
2001, and Dr Ulrich Mack’s LeadTox Blog Institutional Manslaughter Part 1, 25 Jul 2025.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/butterflies-fluttering/
LID 28943
Artist: Riley Jewson, Age: 6
Title: Persecuted by Butterflies
Lead-Safety Message: 1923 Sept - workers started dying in the DuPont TEL works…
“sickening deaths and illnesses of hundreds of TEL workers… Gripped by violent bursts of
insanity, the afflicted would imagine they were being persecuted by butterflies and other
winged insects before expiring, their bodies having turned black and blue.” (Kitman 2000)
Description of Work: Message from Chronology of Leaded Gasoline / Leaded Petrol
History, 2011 by Elizabeth O'Brien and Zac Gethin-Damon, 23 Dec 2011. Stencilled
butterflies drawn in and around with coloured pencils.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/persecuted-by-butterflies/
LID 28944
Artist: Grandma Lead aka Elizabeth O’Brien
Title: RC3 Your Garden
Lead-Safety Message: #Grandma Lead says finding out that RC3 Yard N Garden Activated
Humate foliar spray plant growth promotor can also be added to soil to chelate or bind
lead in the soil, is a game-changer! And the RC3 Potassium Humate and RC3 Sea Minerals
also promote plant growth so get some RC3 products on your garden today!
Description of Work: iPhone 13 photos of RC3 products from https://rc3.info/ collaged in
Powerpoint and Paint.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/rc3-your-garden/
. mug winner! LID 28945
Artist: David Suh, Age: 11, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Wave Goodbye
Lead-Safety Message: Wave goodbye to the lead that’s already in your body – we all have
some – by eating food made with the iron fortificant Ferric EDTA or taking Calcium EDTA
capsules every day for months or years. The more lead you are carrying the longer it takes.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. Lead-Safety Message from:
https://leadtox.blog/ - Dr Ulrich Mack’s blog.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/wave-goodbye/
mug winner! LID 28946
Artist: Tenzin Kuensel, Age: 12, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Homegrown Strawberry
Lead-Safety Message: Strawberries are moderately high in Vit C (which helps remove lead
from your body) and they reduce the recycling of toxics within the body. If you grow
strawberries, be sure to test your soil for lead with a LEAD Group Kit, and always wash
them before eating them from the garden.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. Lead-Safety Message from: Foods for Lead
Detox - Foods which Fight Lead Poisoning - https://lead.org.au/fs/fst86.html and
www.leadsafeworld.com/shop to buy LEAD Group Kits.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/homegrown-strawberry/
LID 28947
Artist: Tenzin Kuensel, Age: 12, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Daisy Shu
Lead-Safety Message: Daisy Shu wrote, in 2010, that: “Studies have shown that lead
exposure can result in a reduced sensitivity of rod photoreceptors, blurred vision and
irritated eyes as well as an increased susceptibility to cataract and optic neuritis.” Test the
soil and playfloor surface dust for lead before young children play on them, with a Posted
LEAD Group Kit from www.leadsafeworld.com/shop
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. Lead-Safety Message from: How does lead
exposure affect our eyes? - https://lead.org.au/lanv10n3/lanv10n3-8.html - published by
The LEAD Group Inc in LEAD Action News, June 2010.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/daisy-shu/
mug winner! LID 28948
Artist: Danny Wang, Age: 8, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Redcapped Mushrooms
Lead-Safety Message: This could be a cluster of Scarlet Waxcap mushrooms OR it could be
any one of similar-looking poisonous mushrooms so don’t eat it!! With lead, it’s much
harder to know what contains poisonous lead so don’t let your little brother or sister eat
soil, paint or put their own dirty fingers in their mouth. Ask your parents to test for lead
with a LEAD Group Kit from www.leadsafeworld.com/shop if you see that happening.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/redcapped-mushrooms/
LID 28949
Artist: Danny Wang, Age: 8, School Name: Creative Einstein
Title: Alien Landscape
Lead-Safety Message: "By the time the aliens fly by, rather than this pear-shaped Earth,
let’s show them: a well-informed, well-regulated, lead-knowledgable World - a Lead-Safe
World." This is most easily achieved if national governments utilise The LEAD Group’s our
Model National Lead Safety Policy (2023).
Description of Work: Message from Consumer Products and Lead Exposures: Vision for a
Lead-Safe World by Elizabeth O’Brien, LEAD Action News; June 2012 and
https://leadsafeworld.com/directory (2023). Coloured pencil drawing.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/alien-landscape/
LID 28950
Artist: Grandma Lead
Title: Ferdy and Alex
Lead-Safety Message: Wonderful volunteers like Ferdy and 15-year old Alex helped me talk
to attendees and handed out hundreds of copies of dozens of different LEAD Group lead-
safety information handouts at Expos like this between 1997 and 2014 – whenever we had
government funding to pay for the stall to raise lead poisoning awareness.
Description of Work: Photo of The LEAD Group’s Lead Advisory Service Australia (LASA)
stall in the Parents, Babies and Children’s Expo 2000 brochure.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/ferdy-and-alex/
mug winner! LID 29003
Artist: Khai, Age: 7
Title: Two Girls Gardening
Lead-Safety Message: Trees, flowers, vegetables and herbs will all grow better if there’s no
available lead in your soil. Apply 4mL of RC3 Yard N Garden Activated Humate Foliar
spray per sq metre of soil because it promotes plant growth and binds the lead safely.
Description of Work: Lead-Safety Message from https://rc3.info/ and Dr Ulrich Mack. Pen
and coloured texta drawing.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/two-girls-gardening/
LID
Artist: Paula Jacobe, Age: 10
Title: Painted Lion
Lead-Safety Message: Thankfully, since the Philippines banned lead in children’s paints in
2013, the EcoWaste Coalition and UN/WHO Lead Paint Alliance has achieved a
government ban on decorative (house) paints with lead - phased in from 2013 to 2016 -
and a ban on lead-containing industrial paints by December 31, 2019.
Description of Work: Lead free children’s paints painting of a lion stencil.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/painted-lion/
LID 28951
Artist: Prince, Age: 8
Title: Rizal Monument
Lead-Safety Message: Rizal Monument in Manila includes a sculpture of Philippines
national hero Jose Rizal, that was cast, in 1912, from molten bronze containing possibly up
to 20% lead. Occupational exposure to lead fumes back then would have been massive and
would certainly have contributed to the early death of the bronze workers.
Description of Work: Pen and coloured textas on paper.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/rizal-monument/
mug winner! LID 28952
Artist: Ella Mae Castro, Age: 4
Title: Dusty Rainbow
Lead-Safety Message: When there’s too much heavy metal dust and smog in the air in
Manila, the rainbow is greyer and less vivid. Lucky for me, Pure Earth has collaborated
with local governments to include blood lead testing in to local health programs in the
Philippines.
Description of Work: Message from Pure Earth's Mitigating Lead Exposure in Low- and
Middle-Income Countries - A Project to Reduce Lead Exposure in 7 Countries [Colombia,
Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Peru, and the Philippines]. Texta line drawing coloured in
with pencils.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/dusty-rainbow/
mug winner! LID 28953
Artist: Paulo Castro, Age: 6
Title: Happy Family
Lead-Safety Message: My family will be happy for life if my parents take me to Philippine
General Hospital for a blood lead test to find out if I should be treated for lead poisoning.
EDTA in food can lower my blood lead level and supercharge my learning at home and at
school.
Description of Work: Message from Pure Earth’s Mitigating Lead Exposure in the
Philippines: Integrating Lead Detection Into National and Local Health Systems, and
www.leadtox.blog by Dr Ulrich Mack. Texta drawings on coloured paper, cut-out and glued
to paper.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/happy-family/
mug winner! LID 28954
Artist: James Brando, Age: 4
Title: Masked Man
Lead-Safety Message: My city of Manila is ranked the 11th worst city in the world for air
pollution. Wearing a mask protects me from some of the air pollution and from COVID19
too. If my parents take me to the local health program, I could get a blood lead test and
then they’d know if I need to start lead detox with oral EDTA.
Description of Work: Message from Pure Earth’s https://www.pureearth.org/philippines/
- Working to Solve Pollution in the Philippines Since 2008; Progress in Blood Lead Level
(BLL) Testing in the Philippines (2021-Present) and www.leadtox.blog by Dr Ulrich Mack.
“Lead” pencil drawing with lead-free pencil.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/masked-man/
LID 28955
Artist: Grandma Lead
Title: Solar Electrifying
Lead-Safety Message: I actually feel joyful now that I’ve had solar panels and a battery
installed and replaced my gas hot water and stove with an electric heat pump and electric
stove. Fairy lights and an electric plane lightshade in the lounge really top off the feeling of
doing something to protect our planet from lead in fossil fuels and help avert a climate
crisis. Having a $300 credit for my electricity bill over the 6 months since the battery went
in, instead of paying $600 in that time, is icing on the elation cake!
Description of Work: iPhone13 photos collaged in Powerpoint and Paint.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/solar-electrifying/
LID 28956
Artist: Dr Gemma O’Brien
Title: Hybrid Car
Lead-Safety Message: Since 2023, this plug-in hybrid car has been getting me around on
way less petrol than my previous vehicle. It plugs in to charge in my garage using electricity
from 100% renewable energy. Fully charged I can travel 50kms – which covers most of my
local trips - without reverting to burning dead fossils (petrol). It feels so good to be able to
make this move towards climate safety.
Description of Work: Selfie sticker made on iphone13. Smart phone photos collaged in
Powerpoint and Paint.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/hybrid-car/
LID 28957
Artist: Eric Evans, Age: 13. School: Ashfield Boys High
Title: Best Mum Ever
Lead-Safety Message: I swear when I gave this card to my mum there was very low-lead
milk chocolate inside the packaging! I did my research and read: “It seems that despite the
many health benefits of dark chocolate, in the case of lead, milk chocolate wins.”
Description of Work: Message from Chocolate: Lead and Cadmium in LEAD Action News
vol 22 no 1 April 2024 by The LEAD Group. Card made with love from purchased objects.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/best-mum-ever/
LID 28958
Artist: Tony Lennon
Title: Growing Garlic
Lead-Safety Message: Grow your own garlic for maximum health benefits and minimum
food travel miles! Near the winter solstice, plant good organic (not imported bleached
Chinese) garlic cloves tip-upwards just below the surface 10 cm apart in deep rich well-
drained elevated soil and water in well. Near the summer solstice pick the whole plants and
hang up in a well-ventilated room in your home with no direct sun. Remember to keep the
best bulbs for next season for seeds so to speak. You will then end up with garlic suited to
your soil and location.
Description of Work: Smart phone photos collaged together.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/growing-garlic/
LID 28959
Artist: Claire Leight
Title: Grey Sky
Lead-Safety Message: If we don’t remove lead from aviation fuel, this may be the new
normal, no more blue skies.
Description of Work: iPhone14 photo.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/grey-sky/
LID 28960
Artist: Harrison Desmond, Age: 4, Pre-school: Summer Hill Children’s Centre
Title: Animal Map
Lead-Safety Message: All creatures on earth are connected by our need for clean air, water
and soil. The lines between the animals on my map are pathways for us to be together.
Description of Work: coloured texta drawing on re-use paper.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/animal-map/
LID 28961
Artist: Grandma Lead
Title: LED not lead
Lead-Safety Message: LED (Light Emitting Diode) bulbs sold today in Australia are not
only more energy efficient but also don’t contain lead cats-eyes contacts like the old
incandescent bulbs did. So, while all light bulbs should be separated from general waste for
recycling, mercury- and lead-free LED bulbs can be recycled for their glass and aluminium
with less hazardous waste created, and hopefully, in the future we’ll also extract valuable
gallium and indium in the LED recycling process so we don’t have to usurp good farming
land to mine these rare minerals.
Description of Work: Message from energyrating.gov.au (including Figure 23.Life-cycle
environmental impacts of three household lamp technologies, from US DOE 2012);
recyclingnearyou.com.au; Landline - Mineral Sands by Gillian Aeria 17 Nov 2024
(TRANSCRIPT); and Peter Dixon, Lighting Expert. iPhone13 photo collaged in Powerpoint
and Paint with Fig 23.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/led-not-lead/
LID 28962
Artist: Grandma Lead
Title: Purpose
Lead-Safety Message: The Purpose of my Life is to: be a powerful, visionary & passionate
woman inspiring others to become lead-safe and accept guidance on how to protect the
environment; to be a teacher and mentor empowering humankind to be free from toxic
exposures; to further my quest for environmental justice and to enable children to reach
their full potential and preserve the world they will inherit. To be all this with ease and
pleasure.
Description of Work: Purpose hand-written by Elizabeth O’Brien in 2003 with pencil
overwriting of faded phrase done in Paint with a vertical mouse in 2025.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/purpose/
LID 28963
Artist: Grandma Lead
Title: Plumbing the Depths
Lead-Safety Message: While gazing at the saturnine moon behind the jacaranda, and
noting my own thoughts about what I don’t yet know about lead-safety, I have come to
depend on a mellifluous Scottish sleepcast to lull me off to sleep: “No-one knows quite how
deep the loch is. No plumbline has ever reached its bottom… It could be as deep as it is
still… The truth is, when it comes to its depth, we just don’t know.”
Description of Work: Message quote from Soothing Scottish Loch sleepcast in Headspace
app; iPhone13 photo.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/plumbing-the-depths/
LID 28964
Artist: Grandma Lead
Title: Daily Detox
Lead-Safety Message: In February 2025 I added CaEDTA biscuits or crackers and then
FeEDTA crackers or bread to my usual breakfast &/or lunch lead detox foods (fresh ginger
and garlic, garlic paste and garlic-infused oil, red onion, coriander &/or parsley, mixed
pepitas, sunflower & black & white sesame seeds, sesame seed halva, psyllium, wild
blueberries, orange rind in syrup, lime/lemon zest & juice, a brazil nut, LivOn Vit C,
Calcium with Vit D, Magnesium) then in September 2025 I added RC3 Sea Minerals in
milk, omega-3 oil, creatine (after it was ok’ed by my GP) & pistachio nuts & sour cherries
for dementia prevention and improved sleep (when the brain is being detoxed). I’ve
brought my blood lead level down this year by 40% on this daily lead detox regime.
Description of Work: iPhone13 photos collaged in Powerpoint and Paint.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/daily-detox/
LID 28965
Artist: Grandma Lead
Title: Rosemary Alignment
Lead-Safety Message: Just as this rosemary plant is aligned perfectly towards the midday
sun to help it grow, I hope that now that The LEAD Group has joined (in September 2025)
UNICEF’s Partnership for a Lead Free Future (PLF) and Children's Environmental Health
Collaborative (CEH is co-founded by UNICEF, UN Environment Programme and the
World Bank) we can work perfectly in alignment with all the governments, NGOs and
others who have already or will join the PLF, to create global lead-safety ASAP and the
grand prize of a Lead Free Future.
Description of Work: iPhone13 photos collaged in Powerpoint and Paint.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/rosemary-alignment/
mug winner! LID 28966
Artist/Photographer: Jenny Rowbotham
Title: Broken Hill Monitoring System
Lead-Safety Message: With broken air monitors like this for the Broken Hill CML7 Mining
Lease and totally incredibly low Lead & lead compounds emitted to air (fugitive/total) like
95kg in 2015/16; despite the astronomical Lead & lead compounds transferred to on-site
tailing storage reported as 1,600,000 kg in the same year in the NSW EPA uploads to the
National Pollutant Inventory (NPI), how can any government even consider renewing this
surface lead Mining Lease and why doesn’t NSW EPA interrogate/investigate BROKEN
HILL OPERATIONS PTY LTD, CBH Resources- Rasp Mine – Broken Hill data before
passing it on from the mine operators to NPI?
Description of Work: Lead-Safety Message data from www.npi.gov.au federal Australian
government website. Smart phone photos collaged in Powerpoint and Paint.
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/broken-hill-monitoring-system/
