Gurning at Patrons

Name: Gurning at Patrons
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2025-10-09

2025· 3 min· Documentary

During the Royal Academy of Arts’ annual open studios, three world-champion gurners process through the institution’s cast corridor, contorting their faces directly at passing patrons. Gurning—a British folk tradition formalised as a competition at the medieval Egremont Crab Fair—here enters one of Britain’s most revered cultural spaces.

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