This was a group Yorkshire Sculptors Group exhibition with sculpture sited throughout Wakefield Cathedral as a response to place.

Gardner’s work ‘Germination’ oscillates references from the cosmological to the microscopic, inspired by the movement of planets and moons, microscopic cellular structures and the plant world. The base pods point to planet earth or to the moss world and spores, reminding us of new life and the vital role moss plays in developing new eco systems. The colour responds to the deep full colour of the stained glass windows. Germination sprouts three branches from the original pod referring to the Holy Trinity and three further branches from each new pod to
rise out in a network of smaller nodes suggesting propagation and the beginning of new life.
The colours respond to the deep full Colours of the stained glass window.