Cherry Truluck is an artist and researcher, who tends towards edible, convivial, collaborative and sometimes curatorial work. Her transdisciplinary practice explores symbiosis, attunement and interdependence in more-than-human ecologies, as both an artistic strategy and agroecological methodology. Working with community building, plant science, cooking, farming and performance, she seeks rhythms in the dialogue that food creates between the body and the land, leading audiences on journeys of speculative fabulation through muddy landscapes.
Cherry is currently working on a PhD with the UK Food Systems Centre for Doctoral Training and based at the Universtity of Aberystwyth. Her research project – “Pluriversal Porridge” is an arts-based/transdisciplinary enquiry into pluri-temporality in (agri)cultural food systems through the lens of the oat plant.
Artistic Commissions, Exhibitions + Events (selected)
| 2024 | Municipal Kitchens, nGbK Berlin |
| 2024 | Recipe for Imagining a Community as an Ecosystem, workshop for Cement Fields + Floating University Berlin |
| 2024 | The End is the Beginning (is the end is the beginning), performance and publication – Cement Fields, Kent UK |
| 2024 | Alive In Us, collaborative/community exhibition with truluck palmer, Wilson Gallery Cheltenham, UK |
| 2024 | Dinner in Utopia (Temporal Praxis?) Round Table event – Delfina Foundation, London UK |
| 2023-24 | The Animist Almanac: Out of Time Culinary Performance – Hayward Gallery, London UK |
| 2023 | This Food is Rubbish with Annalee Levin (Supported by Green + Healthy Futures), Frome UK |
| 2023 | The Oat and the Oyster, Intertidal Encounters Text – CSPA Journal, Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts |
| 2022 | The Animist Almanac: The Oat and the Oyster Narrative Feast -Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation, London UK |
| 2022 | The Animist Almanac: Rudimentary Rhythms Performative Feast – Delfina Foundation, London UK |
| 2021-24 | The Private Weather Diaries Artists Steering Group with Hilary Powell, Sage Brice, Alice Tatton-Brown (supported by Arts Council England) |
| 2021 | Festive Feast: Land/Sea Ecologies Narrative Feast – Gaia Art Foundation, London UK |
| 2020 | A Forager’s Calendar Text – National Food Service London Community Cooks resource |
| 2019 | A Meal in 6 Landscapes communal meal – launch of The Politics of Food publication, London UK |
| 2019 | Mouthfeel [and the Toothache Disco] multisensory feast with Helga Mendes daFonseca- Something Held in the Mouth, Folkestone UK |
| 2018-2022 | Custom Food Lab – Creative Director, Folkestone UK |
| 2018 | Near:Bower Creative Europe Platform Magic Carpets, Folkestone UK |
| 2018 | Topographical Digest edible landscape – UCA School of Architecture, UR Folkestone |
| 2018 | A Coastal Town Creative Folkestone, UK |
| 2018 | Exteriority Complex Folkestone Triennial, UK |
Curatorial Works (selected)
| 2022- 2023 | Seeding the Commons, Custom Food Lab (supported by Arts Council England, Kent Community Foundation, Kent HAF, the Gaia Foundation) |
| 2019 | Eat Your Words, Custom Folkestone (supported by South East Creatives) |
| 2017 | The Architecture of Anxiety, Folkestone Fringe Push:Pull at Folkestone Triennial |
| 2017 | Re:ACT, community art event, Lucky Bert, Red Door Studios, London UK |
