Prize Winning & Highly Commended Entries in

Volcano Art Prize 2021

Many thanks to our sponsor , all our entrants and

the VAP 2021 Judge, James Wood!

Note: this list shows the Volcano Art Prize (VAP) 2021, in the order that they appeared on the website (see the

number preceding each image below) when the VAP 2021 Judge, James Wood, judged them. James’

comments, high commendations and decisions on the First Prize winner of the $400 cash prize, and the winners

of the 30 Pictureproducts mugs from our sponsor , as well as the winner of the

People’s Choice cash prize of $200 have been marked as appropriate on this list.

Artist: Claire Leight

Title: Lead free playground

Lead-Safety Message: Take your kids to the ocean – there is no

lead in sand.

Description of work: iPhone photo

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/lead-free-

playground/

2. mug winner!

Artist: Leanne Norwood

Title: Fight to keep your community safe from lead

Lead-Safety Message: Fight to keep your community safe from

lead

Description of Work: photo

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/fight-to-keep-

your-community-safe-from-lead/

3. mug winner!

Artist: Leanne Norwood

Title: Fight for a lead sustainable future

Lead-Safety Message: Fight for a lead sustainable future

Description of Work: photo with label

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/fight-for-a-

lead-sustainable-future/

4. Highly commended - mug winner!

Artist: Ananda Card

Title: Not what you’d think

Lead-Safety Message: There’s no way to know if soil is safe

without testing it.

Description of Work: Image created with iPhone and apps

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/not-what-

youd-think/

5. mug winner!

Artist: Maddison Taylor, Age: 12 years

Title: Spider Monkey

Lead-Safety Message: Look out for lead – its all around us.

Description of work: Creative PL Artist Collection graphite

drawing pencils on paper.

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/spider-

monkey/

Artist: Elizabeth O'Brien

Title: Keep kids lead safe rule

Lead-Safety Message: Just as “don’t eat mushrooms unless an

expert tells you’re they’re not poisonous” is a good rule, so “Keep

kids lead safe” is a good rule for life.

Description of Work: iPhone photos collaged in Word and saved

and resized in Paint

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/keep-kids-

lead-safe-rule/

Artist: Claire Leight

Title: Noela Whitton and Elizabeth O'Brien

Lead-Safety Message: Two generations campaigning to remove

lead from the world.

Description of Work: Timer iPhone photo with photo of Glebe

Tram Sheds wall art collaged in Word and Paint

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/noela-whitton-

and-elizabeth-obrien/

8. Highly commended - mug winner!

Artist: Dennis Leight

Title: Two planes

Lead-Safety Message: Aviation Fuel - The Last Lead Frontier

Description of Work: Photo Montage

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/two-planes/

9. mug winner!

Artist: Shristi Lohani

Title: Give her wings to fly in a lead safe world !

Lead-Safety Message: Stones, paving and grass all make

excellent barriers to protect young children from any lead

that might be in the soil. Description of Work: Digital

photo, flipped and mirrored in Paint.

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/give-

her-wings-to-fly-in-a-lead-safe-world/

10. mug winner!

Artist: Shristi Lohani

Title: Beware of the lead paint in kids toys

Lead-Safety Message: Let’s be careful we are not handing lead

painted toys to our kids

Description of Work: Digital photo.

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/beware-of-the-

lead-paint-in-kids-toys/

11. mug winner!

Artists: Francis, Berkeley and Rosemary Card. Ages: 5, 3, 1

Title: Superheroes in a Leaded World

Lead-Safety Message: Teaching our kids to overcome their

exposures and be ambassadors of a safer world to come

Description of Work: Iphone photos + PicsArt app

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/superheroes-

in-a-leaded-world/

12.

Artist: Elizabeth O'Brien

Title: Vale Noela Whitton

Lead-Safety Message: My mother raised me to love art which

inspired me to create Volcano Art Prize (VAP). I hope my

mother's VAP entries inspire other people to create art and lead

awareness into their 90s too. Description of Work: Noela

Whitton's VAP entries collaged using Word and Paint

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/vale-noela-

whitton/

13.

Artist: Elizabeth O'Brien.

Title: Burned car.

Lead-Safety Message: Burning a car beside the road or anywhere

should be illegal. Even if the leaded steel fuel tank doesn't explode,

the air pollution is highly toxic and molten lead and ash from the

lead acid battery, radiator, vibration dampening, waste oil, paint,

foam seats, interior plastics, etc, will remain on the soil until

collected and taken to a hazardous waste dump. Description of

Work: iPhone 8 photos collaged using Word and Paint.

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/burned-car/

14. mug winner! Judge’s comment: Wakaflex was introduced to

Oz circa 2004.

Artist: Jason Fargie

Title: Beware Lead Flashing on Your Roof

Lead-Safety Message: Replace lead flashing with non-lead flashing

like Wakaflex, in order to reduce lead in rainwater and

stormwater.

Description of work: Mobile phone photos collaged together in

Paint. URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/beware-

lead-flashing-on-your-roof/

15.

Artist: Claire Leight

Title of Image: Lead is Scary

Lead-Safety Message: Lead is SCARY and it contaminates many

of these "Fun Things"

Description of Work: Iphone Photo

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/lead-is-scary/

16.   mug winner!
Artist: Lyndal Davies
Title: Lightning strikes
Lead-Safety Message: When lead contamination affects your 
family, it’s like being struck by Lightning.
Description of work: Photo taken with an Olympus OMD-EM1 
Camera.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/lightning-
strikes/ 
17.
Artist: Elizabeth O'Brien
Title: Why is lead mandatory in Oz Propolis?
Lead-Safety Message: You can advocate to stop the Australian 
Poisons Standard permitting lead in "Propolis products" (which 
states lead is "mandatory") at 
https://www.tga.gov.au/form/application-amend-poisons-
standard or at least ensure lead is required to be listed as an 
ingredient. Description of Work: iPhone 8 photos collaged using 
Powerpoint. URL: 
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/why-is-lead-
mandatory-in-oz-propolis/ 
18.
Artist: Elizabeth O'Brien
Title: Better to go grey than be leaded
Lead-Safety Message: You can advocate to stop the Australian 
Poisons Standard permitting lead in "hair cosmetics" (hair-colour-
restorers which turn grey hair/beards black) at 
https://www.tga.gov.au/form/application-amend-poisons-standard
Description of Work: iPhone 8 photo. URL: 
https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/better-to-go-grey-than-
be-leaded/ 
19.   mug winner!
Artist: Jo Lia. Title: DIY Bathtub Disaster. Lead-Safety Message: 
Lead - Often found where you least expect it. The LEAD Group 
recommends children not touch dusty surfaces with more than 12 
ug/m2 lead but this bath had a dust wipe result of 3200 ug/m2 lead 
when I collected the sample using a LEAD Group Kit. URL of short 
film: https://youtu.be/kvaF8ExB79s
Description of Work: Video - short film uploaded on YouTube.
URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/diy-bathtub-
disaster/ 

20. mug winner!

Artist: Alex Jewson

Title: We’re growing beans, carrots and basil

Lead-Safety Message: I already know that I have to wash the garden

soil off my hands before I help mummy make my favourite chilli

basil chicken!

Description of work: iPhone photo

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/were-growing-

beans-carrots-and-basil/

21. mug winner!

Artist: Gary Keller

Title: Where toddlers go to cut their teeth on lead

Lead-Safety Message: Lead emissions from general

aviation planes at Reid-Hillview Airport have raised the

blood lead levels of children living close-by, and

prompted local authorities to propose closing down the

airport - which will be the world's first airport closure

due to lead.

Description of Work: Photos made in to a poster.

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/where-toddlers-go-to-cut-their-teeth-on-lead/

22.

Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien

Title: Most piston-engine planes can use non-leaded fuel.

Lead-safety Message: Nearly 70% of US piston-engine aircraft can

use unleaded MOGAS or MOGAS-alternative eg 82UL while 30%

of US general aviation aircraft can potentially use AGE85, an

ethanol-based fuel. Description of work: China wax pencil,

recycled highlighter, lead pencil on a 70/30% background made

with Derwent Aquarelle pencils. URL:

https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/most-piston-engine-planes-can-use-non-leaded-fuel/

23. Highly commended - mug winner!

Artist: Joseph Lee. Title: There's no leaded pigments in

computer art! Lead-Safety Message: As of 1st October 2021

paint with more than 90 ppm lead can no longer be sold in

Australia. Exceptions: anti-fouling & anti-corrosion paints

can contain 1000 ppm lead until 1st October 2023; adult’s

artists paints can contain any amount of lead with no phase-

out date planned.

Description of Work: Selfies taken on OnePlus Nord android mobile phone camera, modified and

panelled in Picas (art photo/picture filter Android app), flipped and collaged using Paint.

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/theres-no-leaded-pigments-in-computer-art/

24. mug winner!

Artist: Leo Manttan. Age: 2 years

Title: Toddlers and toxics don't mix

Lead-safety message: In Australia, the Mandatory Toy Standard

ensures that all art and craft supplies intended for use by children

under 12 years of age are non-toxic. All countries need similar

standards or legislation. Description of Work: Drawing with non-toxic

texta on paper. URL:

https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/toddlers-and-toxics-

dont-mix/

25. mug winner!

Artist: Lucinda Curran. Title: Supporting Detoxification. Lead-Safety

Message: Our bodies are designed to remove toxicants, such as lead.

However, in the presence of stress, our ability to detoxify reduces. A

bit like a seesaw, as stress increases, detoxification decreases. And as

stress decreases, detoxification increases. Sound Healing triggers the

relaxation response, which therefore supports our natural healing

abilities by reducing stress. This can also help our bodies reduce toxic

load and may be useful in reducing lead levels. Description of Work:

Digital Art. URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/supporting-detoxification/

26. mug winner!

Artist: Tim Pye

Title: It's Everywhere

Lead-Safety Message: It can seem lead is everywhere, but let's fix the

worst first.

Description of Work: Shoe polish on a cupboard door post-processed

with Adobe Lightroom.

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/its-everywhere/

27. mug winner!

Artist: Helen Hao. Age: 8

Title: Blue Mountains

LEAD-Safety Message: Because trees take up lead from the soil,

bushfire smoke from the Black Summer bushfires in the Blue

Mountains added lead to Sydney soil, dust and sediments.

School: Creative Einstein

Description of work: Coloured pencil drawing

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/blue-mountains/

28. Highly commended - mug winner!

Artist: Helen Hao. Age: 8

Title: A fish called Pumpkin

LEAD-Safety Message: Pumpkin is thinking: I wish my owner filled

my tank from a stainless steel tap, not a brass tap, so my water was

pure and lead-free like where I was born.

School: Creative Einstein

Description of work: Coloured pencil drawing

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/a-fish-called-

pumpkin/

29. mug winner!

Artist: Helen Hao, Age: 8

Title: Bunny

LEAD-Safety Message: We can protect all our pets from lead-

contaminated soil by testing soil for lead with a LEAD Group Kit

then replacing the soil if needed.

School: Creative Einstein

Description of work: Coloured pencil drawing

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/bunny/

30. mug winner!

Artist: Christopher Nguyen. Age: 10

Title: Beware lead in volcano ash

LEAD-Safety Message: The ash and smoke from volcanoes can

contain as much lead as the lava. When leaded AvGas is banned and

lead industry emissions are reduced, volcanoes will again become

the major source of lead in the earth’s atmosphere.

School: Creative Einstein. Description of work: Computer art.

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/beware-lead-in-

volcano-ash/

31. Highly commended - mug winner!

Artist: Aurelia Jeffrey. Age: 11

Title: Tawny Frogmouth

LEAD-Safety Message: A wise tawny frogmouth doesn’t eat any

lead-contaminated soil when they eat worms, slugs, snails, bugs,

beetles, wasps, ants, centipedes, millipedes, and scorpions found

on the ground.

School: Creative Einstein. Description of work: Charcoal drawing

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/tawny-

frogmouth/

32. Highly commended - mug winner!

Artist: Liza Tripathi. Age: 10

Title: I choose to live on a healthy planet

LEAD-Safety Message: The survival of the human race depends on

everyone choosing a bank and superannuation fund that does not invest

in polluting industries, lead mining, fossil fuels, overfishing or

deforestation.

School: Creative Einstein

Description of work: Non-toxic water colour on acid-free paper

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/i-choose-to-live-on-a-

healthy-planet/

33. First Prize Winner!! And mug winner! Judge’s comment:

provides a powerful message and simple but powerful drawing.

Artist: Liza Tripathi. Age: 10

Title: Earth is our only home

LEAD-Safety Message: Planet earth needs our protection. I’m dreaming

of planting billions of trees, having a sunset clause on all leaded

products to phase them out, and the end of burning fossil fuels.

School: Creative Einstein

Description of work: Non-toxic water colour on acid-free paper

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/earth-is-our-only-

home/

34. mug winner!

Artist: Liza Tripathi. Age: 10

Title: A treehouse on my mind

LEAD-Safety Message: Whether you’re dreaming of re-painting

your treehouse or your home, always test for lead first and don’t

ever dry-sand lead paint!

School: Creative Einstein

Description of work: Non-toxic water colour and lead pencil on

acid-free paper

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/a-treehouse-

on-my-mind/

35. mug winner!

Artist: Kiara Nguyen. Age: 9

Title: Through my eyes

LEAD-Safety Message: Only eat cooked wild mushrooms if an adult

expert identifies them as edible. Don’t eat any mushrooms found growing

in city soil which could be lead-contaminated.

School: Creative Einstein

Description of work: Non-toxic water colour on acid-free paper

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/through-my-eyes/

36. mug winner!

Artist: Liza Tripathi. Age: 10

Title: Help me! Please! Healthy! Clean!

LEAD-Safety Message: Our planet needs us to stop burning

fossil fuels, to have all the leaded dust, soil and sediments

cleaned up to increase biodiversity and help us be smart enough

to reverse climate change.

School: Creative Einstein.

Description of work: Non-toxic water colour on acid-free paper.

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/help-me-

please-healthy-clean/

37. Highly commended!

Artist: Elizabeth O'Brien

Title of Image: Celebration of

the end of the 100 year reign of

Leaded Petrol globally

Lead-Safety Message: After 35

Years, Global Leaded Petrol

Phaseout which began in Japan

in 1986 has finally ended in

Algeria in July 2021. Next phaseout required: Leaded Aviation Fuel!

Description of Work: Collage (made in Paint) of progressive highlighter drawing dedicated to Noela

Whitton.

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/celebration-of-the-end-of-the-100-year-reign-of-

leaded-petrol-globally/

38. mug winner!

Artist: Rose Lennon. Age: 7

Title: Women protesting against polluting

vehicle fuels

Lead-Safety Message: In the mid-1990s I drew this

when The LEAD Group was campaigning to

ban leaded petrol so that every mother

could spend less time cleaning up lead dust

and more time playing with their children.

Description of Work: Pen drawing.

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/3388/

39. mug winner!

Artist: Monika Mangal. Title: Switch your Lead Lipstick to Lead

free. Lead-Safety Message: I've Switched my "Maybelline" Lipstick

to natural "Urban color London" Lipstick and other Lead

cosmetics to Lead free cosmetics at right time. Lead and other

trace metals may be found in many lipsticks, these occur naturally

and can accidentally contaminate other ingredients during

production. As contaminants are not added intentionally they will

not be listed as ingredients. But it’s good to change it over the

period of time. The lead levels ranged from 0.09 to 3.06 ppm,

with the highest levels found in lipsticks made by Cover Girl,

L'Oreal, and Revlon, Maybelline. Description of Work: clicked by iphone xr.

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/switch-your-lead-contained-lipstick-to-lead-free/

40. Highly commended!

Artist: Elizabeth O'Brien.

Title: Lead and Webs are Silent Invisible Killers

Lead-Safety Message: When a cicada is caught in an invisible

web, it struggles loudly until the spider kills it. But when lead

kills, mostly, neither the patient nor the doctors know the cause

of death. Lead poisoning is a silent invisible killer. Description

of Work: iPhone9 Photos collaged in Powerpoint & Paint

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/lead-and-

webs-are-silent-invisible-killers/

41. People’s Choice Winner! Congratulations Faridah for getting the most Facebook

Likes thus raising more lead-awareness than any other entry in VAP 2021!

mug winner!

Artist: Faridah Hussein Were

Title: Lead Exposure during Informal Automobile Painting

Activities

Lead-Safety Message: Ban use of lead in automobile paint to

protect human health and environment

School Name: Chemistry Department, University of Nairobi

Description of Work: This is one of the power point

presentations in the virtual East African Community

workshop during the International Lead Poisoning Prevention

Week of Action on 29th October 2020. The photo depicts

preparation of lead painted automobile metal surfaces through sanding in open garages in residential

areas. These activities result in substantial exposure to the environment, workers and communities in

the vicinities. Research was also carried out and found that the automobile paints sold in the nearby

retail shops had markedly high levels of lead that exceeded the 90 ppm limit set by the East African

Paint and Allied Product Standards. The photo justifies why export, import, use or sale of lead in

automobile paints should be banned across the region by enforcing the East African Paint Standards of

90 ppm maximum total lead in paint.

URL: https://volcanoartprize.com/portfolio-item/lead-exposure-during-informal-automobile-

painting-activities/