Chase and Chalke Landscape Partnership
Cranborne Chase National Landscape, 2023
Over 6 months in 2023, Cherry Truluck undertook a community artist residency with the Chase and Chalke Landscape partnership, based on the Ebble river, a chalk stream in Wiltshire. The project ‘Edible Ebble‘ was built on a series of 10 interactive food experiences along the Ebble which connected people to the river landscape and the seasons through their own appetite and metabolism. 2-3 hr ‘workshops’ were based at Truluck’s mobile kitchen at different locations along the river bank. Each focused on a different food type associated (for good or bad) with the story of the Ebble. From diminished supplies of wild river trout and watercress, to the ghosts of heritage cereal crops once processed at the rivers 11 mills, now replaced by monocropped grain which causes fertiliser run-off into the fragile chalk stream. Using these ingredients and a store cupboard of supplies, participants created dishes which further entangle their own experiences, culture and heritage with the story of the river.
| PARTICIPANTS: Seeds 4 Success River Bourne Community Farm Bemerton Heath Neighbourhood Centre SUPPLIERS: Broadchalke Honey Chalke Valley Stores Chalke Valley Watercress Dorset game larder Hendersons Bakery Manor Farm Organics The Magnificent Seed (rapeseed oil) Mere Trout Nunton Farm Dairy Knighton Manor Farm (eggs) Wessex Mill (flour) Wilton Wholefoods | COLLABORATORS + SUPPORTERS: Tony Patel + team (Chalke Valley Stores) Alex and Rachel Sykes (Norrington Manor Farm) Katie and Richard Jowett (Manor Farm Organics) Caroline and Peter Lambe (Knighton Manor Farm) Simon and Karen Allesbrooke (Mulberry Farmhouse) Keith Hitchings (Chalke Valley Watercress) Tim Sykes Michael Roe Jenny + Ashley Truluck Broadchalke Village Hall Chalke Valley History Festival Charlotte Moreton Paul Osborne Tom Coldwell |
At the Chase + Chalke exhibition, the mobile kitchen was displayed as a sculptural form, with the risograph printed recipe collection that Truluck created from the workshops. Participants returned to experience their recipes and food dreams as artworks and in the context of work by fellow community artists-in-residence Sara Dudman and Jo Beal.
