Gurning at Patrons (2025)

Gurning at Patrons (2025)

2025-10-09 3 Min. PG-13
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Overview

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.