Artist: Grandma Lead

Lead-safety Message: Between the ages of 35 and 69 when trying every lead detox food and supplement I could buy, I reduced my blood lead level by 72% from 7.5 ug/dL to 2.1 ug/dL when most women’s lead typically rises between menopause and death. But from age 69 to 70 when I added FeEDTA daily bread to my breakfast and lunch, I reduced my blood lead level by a further 71% from 2.1 to 0.6 ug/dL, or by 92% from 1991 when I co-founded The LEAD Group. No wonder I want to make it possible for everyone to eat FeEDTA daily baked goods so you too can be enlivened as by water drops from a sprinkler!

Description of Work: Photos collaged in Powerpoint and Paint showing home-made FeEDTA banana bread ingredients and other lead detox foods and supplements.

Artist: Grandma Lead

Lead-safety Message: Solar panels on the roof and a solar battery on the side of the house plus a heat pump for your hot water! Living the dream of a lead-safe and climate-safe world!

Description of Work: iPhone 13 photos collaged together in Powerpoint and Paint.

Artist: Grandma Lead

Lead-safety Message: We need a sunset clause on diesel or gas buses and coal-fired electric public transport. Bring on the day when all the buses are electric and metro trains and light rail in the world run on solar power. Not just a greenhouse gas reduction policy but a lead emissions reduction policy too.

Description of Work: iPhone 13 photo.

Artist: Margaret Roberts

Lead-safety Message: Don’t be a silly goat, check your house for lead paint.

Description of Work: Photo

Artist: Anne Roberts

Age: 93

Lead-safety Message: You can eat sowthistles, or so it appears. Don’t have to be a sheep or goat. But if lead is there… in the paint or the soil, beware!

Description of Work: Photo

Artist: Riley Jewson

Age: 7

School: Summer Hill Public School, Australia

Lead-safety Message: I can pick flowers with my daddy because The LEAD group
saved him from lead poisoning.

Description of Work: Paint on paper

Click on the image or here to hear the full interview.

Artists: Brian Arndt

Lead Safety Message: It was a momentous occasion in Nov 2025 when Rodney Hide of Reality Check Radio New Zealand asked me (for the 3^rd time) to explain to the listeners what a miracle it is I’m still alive – at 86! – after being unprotected by my employer from severe lead exposure while making leaded petrol from 1964-75, considering all my co-workers had died before 2016. All thanks to years of chelation treatments, taking psyllium and lots of supplements daily!

Description of work: Image from “Unseen Lead – Unheard Warnings”: a 63 minute Interview by Rodney Hide (centre) of Brian Arndt, Former Marsden Point Refinery Worker (at right) and Dr Ulrich Mack, Former Medical Researcher (at left).

Artist: Zainab Bibi

Age: 18, School in Pakistan

Lead-safety Message: This artwork represents the importance of creating healthy, safe spaces where life can bloom. It encourages awareness of lead exposure and the importance of choosing lead-safe paints and materials to protect families, children and communities.

Description of Work: Acrylic on canvas, 30 × 30 cm. The artwork uses a colourful geometric composition surrounding a white vase with flowers. The flowers represent life, health and hope, while the vibrant surrounding forms represent the spaces in which we live.

Click on the image above or here, to run the gif file through its movements from a fist to an open hand

Artist: Tim Pye

Lead-safety Message: According to Niamh O’Regan and Aveek Bhattacharya in the New Statesman article Revealed: Britain’s lead poisoning legacy could still be affecting children: “The UK has some of the oldest housing stock in the world.” Old paint is invariably lead paint so don’t dry-sand it!

Description of Work: Gif.

Click on this image or here to listen to the 52 minutes chapter

Artists: Elizabeth O’Brien (author) and Alex Jewson (voice actor)

Lead Safety Message: Chapter 1 – The LEAD Group: Responding to the Problem of Lead Contamination, from the book “LOCAL HEROES: Australian crusades from the environmental frontline” (2002) tells the history of The LEAD Group’s first decade of creating lead safety. Listen to this chapter (and read along at https://lead.org.au/lanv14n2/lanv14n2-11.html) to find out what you can do about lead.

Description of work: Book edited by Kathleen McPhillips; Chapter 1 written by Elizabeth O’Brien; voice mp3 at https://lead.org.au/local-heroes-chapter-1-read-by-Alex-Jewson.mp3 and accessible via: https://lead.org.au/lanv14n2/lanv14n2-11.html read by Alex Jewson ( https://alexjewsonvo.com) . The last few copies of “LOCAL HEROES” book are available for purchase from https://www.leadsafeworld.com/product/local-heroes-book/ cover photo of Elizabeth O’Brien and youngest son by Adrian Hill; book cover design by Tracy Baglin; photo of Alex Jewson by Tivy Siripanich; image collaged in Powerpoint & Paint.