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.
1.
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/
6.
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/
7.
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/