Gurning at Patrons (2025)

Oct 9, 2025 0h 3m Released

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.