Mark McGowan

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mark McGowan
Occupation	Premier Of Western Australia
Date Of Birth	Jun 9, 1964(1964-06-09)
Age	60
Birthplace	Clapham Town
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Gemini

Mark McGowan Biography

Mark McGowan is one of the most popular and richest Premier Of Western Australia who was born on June 9, 1964 in Clapham Town, United Kingdom.

Mark McGowan (born 9 June 1964) is a British street artist, performance artist and prominent public protester who has gone by the artist name Chunky Mark and more recently The Artist Taxi Driver. By profession, McGowan is a London taxi driver and occasional University speaker and arts tutor. McGowan is known internationally for his performance art including shock art, street art and installation art, and as a stuntman, internet personality, video blogger, social commentator, social critic, satirist, political activist, peace activist, and an anti-establishment, anti-war, anti-capitalist anti-monarchist and anti-power elite protester.

McGowan did menial work but still painted for a decade before entering the art world. One of McGowan’s earliest works was at the London Art Biennale in 1998, a “do-it-yourself” free arts festival organised by Filipino performance artist David Medalla. In 2003, at age 33, McGowan earned a B.A. degree in Fine Art from Camberwell College of Arts, where he still occasionally lectures as a second year elective performance art tutor. McGowan also occasionally lectures to MA students at Chelsea College of Art where he is an associate, and he also occasionally speaks at Goldsmiths University of London, a public research university. McGowan has a second degree in the History of Art from the latter institution. In the past McGowan has worked with the Scottish Arts Council, the University of Central England in Birmingham, and spoken on the issues of public art and how it can relate to protest at the Royal Academy of Arts.

Mark McGowan Net Worth

Mark McGowan is one of the richest Premier Of Western Australia from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mark McGowan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Born in 1964 to a working class background, at the Salvation Army Mother’s Hospital in Clapham, McGowan grew up in Peckham, South London, on the North Peckham Estate where he still lives. He has made some claims about his past such as he was always good at football and running and ran for his school; he has also made claims of being involved in gang culture and football hooliganism for a while in his youth and has “known numerous London gangsters” yet walked away from the lifestyle. McGowan is now critical of football, citing it as a “distraction from the realities of being a slave”. McGowan has claimed that he has spent around a decade as an expatriate in Spain, where his first job was at a beach bar that was frequently visited by Mick Jones of the punk rock band The Clash. McGowan has said that despite eating animals in a number of his protests, he is in fact a staunch vegetarian in his private life, which made the animal eating protests more difficult for him. McGowan has stated that he is married with a son and a daughter but has their only inclusion in his artistry work has been off-screen in some of his more light- hearted Artist Taxi Driver videos. His son has joined him on anti-austerity marches. McGowan is critical of the British royal family, is a Republican, and claims he has never voted since “all politicians are the same” and the developed world has become “kleptocratic” rather than democratic. However, in the 2017 General Election, he voted for the Labour Party and endorsed its leader Jeremy Corbyn. He turned the Tories’ use of the phrase “magic money tree” back on them, in a much-viewed video.

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Who is Mark McGowan Dating?

According to our records, Mark McGowan married to Sarah McGowan (m. 1996). As of December 1, 2023, Mark McGowan’s is not dating anyone.

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When asked if he considered himself an “attention seeker” by My London of BBC News in 2003, McGowan explained his reasoning and motives behind his performance art and demonstration:

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Mark Ranked on the list of most popular Premier Of Western Australia. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Mark McGowan celebrates birthday on June 9 of every year.

In December 2005, Maya Evans was convicted under Section 132 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act for reading out the names of soldiers who died in Iraq at the Cenotaph War Memorial. This stated that demonstrators must get police consent before protesting within a half-mile radius of the House of Commons. The new legislation was intended to remove Brian Haw, an anti-war protester who had camped in Parliament Square for ten years and had fought numerous legal battles including one in the High Court where he argued that his encampment was started before the legislation.