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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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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/