Phantasmal Gallery
Phantasmal Gallery
Scream
Queens
11.09.25 - 10.10.25
For this month's exhibition, Phantasmal gallery welcomes you to celebrate the triumph & tragedy of women in horror.
From emerging artists to film makers, we have collected work from around the globe. Please take your time to look through and admire each work equally. Many works contain graphic and scary imagery (you would hope so), please proceed at your our risk!
This exhibition also celebrates intersectional feminism, trans women will always have a safe place at our gallery.
Curated by Harriett Smith and Daisy-Drew Smith.
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You can’t have women in horror without considering exactly what it is
that makes these women so horrific, and then, why does the criteria
differ so much from those of men in horror. This is exactly what Barbara
Creed explored along with Julia Kristevas theory of Abjection, in her
theory The Monstrous Feminine.
“The reasons why the monstrous-feminine horrifies her audience are
quite different from the reasons why the male monster horrifies his
audience... The phrase 'monstrous-feminine' emphasises the importance
of gender in the construction of her monstrosity”- Barbara Creed in The
Monstrous Feminine, 1993.
A great film to start with and perhaps a founding film of its kind is Carrie
(1976), which encapsulates elements such as Freudian psychanalysis,
abjection and menstrual blood.
- Zoe Coldwell,
Phantasmal writer.
From when I saw Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the first time at age 11, I knew who I wanted to be and who I was proud to be.
People say that horror helps you handle trauma. It is always the most popular when the world is in crisis. From the 19th century, fears of revolution, industrialisation, and shifting moral codes, to the grotesque dramatics of France’s Grand-guignol, born from political unrest and desperation of the time. Women have always been at the centre of unrest, whether we liked it or not, the world has been attacking us since day one.
My very first thoughts on women in horror were that I didn't want to see women endure torturous situations (especially at the hands of men). With the likes of films such as I Spit On Your Grave...films that I still hear men say they see absolutely no problem with. I thought we were done for.
I graduated university with a degree in Fine Art and a fear that my horror art was doomed to be looked down upon by the beige sculptors and abstract shape painters of the world, FOREVER. I never would of thought I would help bring together such a bloody fucking talented group of artists and filmmakers to represent something that I love and appreciate so dearly.
Women in Horror!!!!
- Daisy-Drew Smith,
Phantasmal Director
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