Julia Robinson: The Felling Place

The Felling Place is a foray into eco-horror and plant horror: branches of the horror genre that stem from our fractured relationship with the natural world and might be characterised by narratives where nature is not only sentient but malevolent. In these narratives plant life may strike back at humans and horror comes from our terrifying encounter with ‘monstrous’ vegetation.

About this new body of work, Robinson shares: “The new work draws particular inspiration from David Lowery’s 2021 film The Green Knight, adapted from the anonymously penned fourteenth century alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

My work brings an eco-horror reading to this adaptation wherein the Green Knight represents the personification of a vengeful nature come to challenge the warmongering humans with an axe – their preferred weapon of choice for ecocide.”

Julia Robinson, Crown-lop , 2025, copper-plated log, jacquard, silk, thread, felt, interfacing, steel, magnets, 40 x 35 x 18 cm irreg. Photography by Sam Roberts