Sir, - Your article (Arts, June 28th) on Irish cultural festivals and projects abroad is accompanied by a photograph of a large installation in the Irish pavilion at Expo 2000 in Hanover. The caption credits the work to the artist Martina Galvin. You will appreciate our wish to place on record that the work was in fact made by the artist in collaboration with over 100 Irish children.
The children worked for a month with Martina Galvin in the Ark, which was commissioned to organise the project by the firm of Orna Hanley Architects of the consortium Dul, on behalf of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. The children, whose work (measuring 35 feet x 10 feet) forms a central element of the Irish pavilion at Expo 2000, came from the following schools: Bray School Project, Gardiner Street Girls' National School, St Joseph's Boys' National School in Kilcock, and Monkstown Educate Together. - Yours, etc.,
Martina Galvin, (Artist); Martin Drury, (Director), The Ark, A Cultural Centre for Children, Dublin 2.