Young Gallery, Salisbury 2024
Chase and Chalke Landscape Partnership
Cranbourne Chase National Landscape








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.
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.