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Cherry Truluck

@cherrytruluck

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artist · grower · cook · researcher
🍽️feeding people 👩‍🌾breeding oats ⏳unpicking time
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You know when you find a piece of writing or a work of art or theatre that just makes sense of all the wobbly intuitions you’ve been clinging onto and it feels like such a huge relief that someone else has already been down this path and made some sense out of it?! This is it for me at the moment. I’m not even halfway through it yet (lots going on at home and reading is a challenge) but it is really helping me to unpack the processes that connect across my art and research practices, and bringing my attention to parts of this that i hadn’t noticed were quietly underpinning and guiding the whole journey. #theminorgesture #erinmanning by @cherrytruluck

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😍Happy father's day @peterhalpinXx by @cherrytruluck

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We are delighted to announce that ‘A Year Long Feast: The Hoo Heddern’ has been awarded the Whose Hoo Community Grant, enabling artist and food systems researcher Cherry Truluck (@cherrytruluck) to bring the next chapter of the project to life. 🌱Between May and November, Cherry will work with farmers, growers, and seasonal fruit pickers on the Hoo Peninsula to explore how local communities can play an active role in the stewardship of food, land and place in response to the erosion of rural knowledge.Collaborating with @myattsofmockbeggar Farm Shop, Church Farm, and the Hoo Farmers Cluster, two Kitchen Table events will bring together farmers, seasonal workers and the communities around them to reflect on historic, transient and insurgent food practices - sharing meals, memories and practical knowledge to imagine new food futures for Hoo. In the Autumn, Cherry will host a Harvest Feast celebrating the end of the harvest and the stories, recipes and ingredients collected in the Heddern throughout the year.Taking its name from the Saxon name for a storeroom, the ‘Hoo Heddern’ is a travelling ‘library’ of food, housed in a mobile trailer. Cherry is working with local residents to fill the Heddern with stories, recipes, oral histories, seeds, ingredients, and fragments of lived knowledge. Gathered and archived season by season, these contributions form a living almanac – a vital record of what grows here, what is remembered here, and how food binds people to place over time.Sign up to our monthly mailer via our bio to hear more about the 2026 ‘A Year Long Feast: The Hoo Heddern’ programme. 🪏~~~~~~~~~~‘A Year Long Feast: The Hoo Heddern’ has been commissioned by Cement Fields and supported by Medway Council through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) and Whose Hoo Community Grant (@whose.hoo.project), made possible by @heritagefunduk and National Lottery players.Photo: @wainwrightsam by @cherrytruluck

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Proud and excited that this particular bit of work is getting another outing, this time with grateful thanks to @hettiejudah who will be screening it at "Making Room for Children and Art", a symposium on artist-parent-child collaborations and other strategies for continuing a creative practice alongside caring for children 🎨⁠. My son Ernest made "Rough cut: Oat Harvest in Hoo" last summer when I was taking the first harvest of my Matriarchal Oat population. It seemed right on so many levels that it was my child who captured this and he is rightly proud of what he made. ( @peterhalpin and I are also pretty proud of what we made! 🥰)⁠Making Room for Children and Art is led by @assuntaruocco_studio with @blocprojects and @artworkingparents, hosted by @sheffmuseums⁠📆 Wednesday, 27 May, 12-4pm⁠📍 Millennium Gallery, Sheffield ⁠⁠Convened by artist and researcher and lecturer in Fine Art @unilincolfineart @assuntaruocco_studio Making Room for Children and Art brings together artists, curators, researchers and art workers to share, discuss and develop thinking around intergenerational collaboration and the conditions that support artist-parents/carers and children in cultural institutions, studios and public spaces.⁠⁠Contributors include:Shirley Cameron, artist, SheffieldHettie Judah, curator, writer and co-founder of the Art Working Parents AllianceJo Harrison, co-founder of the Art Working Parents AllianceAssunta and Lou on their collaborative practice from 2020-ongoing.Ellie Barrett, artistMagda Bielesz, artistKarolina Korupczynska Poster Image Credits: ⁠(1-3) Stills from 'Rough cut: Oat Harvest in Hoo' by Ernest Halpin, made in conjunction with Cherry Truluck's 'Matriarchal Oats'(4-5) Performance/installation Pyramid Colours⁠by Shirley Cameron, Mappin Gallery, Sheffield, 1986⁠ by @cherrytruluck

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Beautiful afternoon with delicious food, thanks @community_patch_project and @lizzyhaughton + @t.wilford2 - this was not just any old spring fayre! Not a burger in sight, just a casual dish of crispy fried gnocchi with Soubise and amazing salad and Tom's incredible focaccia, all washed down with some #tinkersbubble cider whilst listening to music and storytelling 😍 by @cherrytruluck

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This weekend @cherrytruluck and her travelling ‘library’ of food ‘The Hoo Heddern’ continue their journey gathering a living portrait of food culture on the Hoo Peninsula at Grain Coast Crafty Alpaca Farm, as part of @whoopheritagefestival.You’re invited to explore what the Heddern is carrying — to open drawers, read the snippets people have left behind, browse recipes and notes, and trace patterns between the salt‑pans, gardens, mudflats, and kitchens that make the Hoo Peninsula unique.Each stop along the peninsula adds another thread to the Heddern’s growing tapestry: a recipe rescued from a drawer, the smell of a childhood meal, a seed packet saved from a long‑gone allotment, a note about what once grew in the salt‑touched soil, or a catalogue that once lived in someone’s shed. Any and all contributions connected to food and the Hoo landscape are welcome. 🥕🗒️🗣️→ Saturday 16 & Sunday 27 May, 11am-4pm→ Grain Coast Crafty Alpaca Farm, Isle of Grain→ WHOOP Heritage FestivalFree entry, no booking required — we look forward to seeing you there! ~~~~~~~~~~‘A Year Long Feast: The Hoo Heddern’ has been commissioned by Cement Fields and supported by Medway Council through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF). This event is kindly supported by WHOOP Heritage Festival.Image: Cherry Truluck, ‘A Year Long Feast: The Hoo Heddern’ (A National Dish of Hoo? Community Feast), 2026. Photo: @wainwrightsam by @cherrytruluck

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Join artist and researcher @cherrytruluck next Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 May from 11am-4pm at Grain Coast Crafty Alpaca Farm, where the Hoo Heddern makes its next stop as part of the WHOOP Heritage Festival. 🦙 🗺️📍Explore what the Heddern is carrying…Inside the Heddern, you’ll find a strange and beautiful mix of objects offered by neighbours across Hoo. You can open drawers, read the snippets people have left behind, browse recipes and notes, and trace patterns between the salt‑pans, gardens, mudflats, and kitchens that make this place unique.Bring something to place on the shelves…Each stop along the peninsula adds another thread to the Heddern’s growing tapestry: a recipe rescued from a drawer, the smell of a childhood meal, a seed packet saved from a long‑gone allotment, a note about what once grew in the salt‑touched soil, or a catalogue that once lived in someone’s shed.You’re welcome to share anything connected to food and the Hoo landscape:🗯️ Stories of meals, marshes, gardens, and kitchens – written or just memories to share✍️ Favourite recipes — smudged, typed, or half‑remembered🫛 Ingredients grown, gathered, or simply loved📒 Books, catalogues, clippings, foraging notes🎣 Memories of fishing, foraging, cooking, preserving, and feasting.Every contribution will become part of a living, travelling portrait of what food means here and how it has shaped the peninsula, past and present.Free entry, no booking required — we look forward to seeing you there!~~~~~~~~~~‘A Year Long Feast: The Hoo Heddern’ has been commissioned by Cement Fields and supported by Medway Council through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF). This event is kindly supported by WHOOP Heritage Festival. by @cherrytruluck

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Love this magical dell by the chalk stream in the village where I grew up. I've visited so many times over the years and even hosted a feast for @cranborne.chase focusing on so-called "invasive species". It is indeed full of Himalayan balsam (seeds are tasty, leaves are very astringent), ground elder (one of those multi-purpose 'use like spinach' leaves), hemlock water dropwort (do not eat!!) and squirrels (honestly delicious!) but today I saw marsh marigold here for the first time in a few years and the riverside never fails to disappoint with an epic harvest of intoxicating meadowsweet and water mint. The air is filled with the smell of the mint right now. by @cherrytruluck

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Friends, creatives and fellow artists, please join us for an informal, intimate morning event built around art, conversation and community, marking the publication of writer, curator and broadcaster Hettie Judah’s new book, ‘How to Enter the Art World …After.’Hosted as a relaxed daytime gathering, The After Session begins with an introduction by acclaimed textiles artist Alice Kettle, followed by short, informal presentations from Camilla Emson, Temujen Gunawardena, Sophie Mason, Cherry Truluck, Rachel Marshall, Alyssa Norton and Selina Ogilvy. Each artist will share recent and current work, offering insights into their practices. The presenting artists are part of a long‑standing group of critical friends, who support one another through monthly gatherings rooted in care, honesty and exchange.We will then move into a clustered circle, with Hettie Judah seated at the centre for an open, hour‑long Q&A. This will be a space for conversation and curiosity, questions about the art world, about sustaining a practice, about re‑entry, continuity and the realities of creative life.The morning will close gently, with a cup of tea and time to chat. Hettie will be selling and signing copies of ‘How to Enter the Art World …After’ - a generous, myth‑busting guide for artists whose lives are complicated and human.Tea and coffee will be provided, and there will be break‑out space for children, making this a family‑friendly event where parents and carers are warmly welcomed.@hettiejudah @silkmillinfromeThe Art Crit Group introduced by @alicekettle @camillaemson @cherrytruluck @sophiemasonart @tem.jam @livesofthings @alyssanorton @selinaogilvy by @cherrytruluck

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A huge thank you to everyone who joined us @thriftandthrivemedway on Saturday with @cherrytruluck to explore the food culture of the Hoo Peninsula and feast with friends new and old! 🥣♥️We tucked into a mouthwatering spread of rhubarb salsa, goats cheese and beetroot, squash salad, spring greens and pumpkin seeds, roast chicken with roast apples, roast potatoes and a scrumptious onion gravy, as well as an enormous rhubarb cream cheese crumble cake which was demolished in minutes! We hope you left with full bellies. 🍰The meal wove together foraged herbs, farmers market finds, historic recipes, memories of meals cooked in kitchens across Hoo, and a whole lot of regional character, all gathered by Cherry in her mobile pantry ‘The Hoo Heddern’, which has been travelling the Peninsula asking “What does Hoo taste like?”Stay tuned for more to come from The Hoo Heddern and sign up to our newsletter via the link in our bio to hear about events like this and more. 🗞️~~~~~~~~~~The Hoo Heddern has been commissioned by Cement Fields and supported by Medway Council through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF).Images by @wainwrightsam by @cherrytruluck

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