Mark McGowan (born 9 June 1964) is a British street artist, performance artist and prominent public protester. Mark McGowan (born 9 June 1964) is a British street artist, performance artist and prominent public protester. 

Whilst many a taxi driver no doubt gets bored whilst waiting between fares, Clapham born Mark McGowan decided to put his spare time to good use and turned himself into ‘The Artist Taxi Driver’ in 2010. This self-employed eccentric shares satirical videos attacking political parties and injustice with subscribers on YouTube on a daily basis and he never fails to rise to the occasion. He is an ex-football hooligan, an ex-associate lecturer at the Chelsea College of Art and now sells his own works (painted on newspapers) online also. Refused entry to the Frieze Art Fair for five nights in 2010 for rightly daring to suggest it was elitist, “passionate ranter” McGowan champions the belief that “the role of art is to challenge.”