new webpage http://www.markmcgowan.org/

THE WITHERED ARM 2006
Mark Mcgowan stays with his arm tied to a lampost outside The Brick Lane Gallery for two weeks, promoting peace at Christmas.

DEAD SOLDIER 2006

The artist Mark Mcgowan is to dress up in british army camoflague fatigues, with commando boots and a red beret on and lie down in New Street,( junction of Needless Alley), in Birmingham City Centre, curled up in a ball for one week. The performance is called Dead Soldier 2006 and is neither anti-war or pro-military, put an artistic comment on current times.

The project starts on Tuesday 14th November 2006 at 10am and lasts until 20th November 2006.

Dead Soldier has been commissioned by the International Project Space, which is part of the University of Central England, Birmingham and is funded by the Arts Council.

For more info
International Project Space
Andrew Hunt, Curator
07886002310

Bournville Centre for Visual Arts
Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
University of Central England

www.internationalprojectspace.org

SALVAGE 2006

mark rolled 40 miles head over heals from London to the Salvo Fair in Knebworth.

BEAT A TRAFFIC WARDEN WITH STICKS 2006

Mark went out onto the streets of Bethnal Green and gave members of the public the opportunity to beat him, dressed as a traffic warden Mark got well and truly hammered for 8 hours.

ARTIST ATTEMPTS WORLD HAMBURGER EATING RECORD.

A CANTERBURY TALE

MARK MCGOWAN STARTED AT FROM LONDON BRIDGE ON THE 26TH DECEMBER 2005
AND FINISHED AT CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL ON 6TH JANUARY 2006

sir edmund hilary, scott of the antartic, dame helen mccarthy, ben fogle
where are you now

mark mcgowan is crawling on his hands and knees from london bridge to canterbury with a rose clenched between his teeth 18 boxes of chocolates tied around his wrists and ankles and a triangular sign on his back saying could you love me

THE UNNECESARY JOURNEY
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4268562.stm
In an extra ordinary art exhibition, enviromentally conscious artist Mark McGowan is planning to keep a car (an Audi 80), running everyday for one year in order to produce enormous amounts of unnecessary pollution. The car will be turned on, on tuesday 15th November 2005, at 6pm and is part of a major group exhibition in Peckham South east London.

THE RUNNING TAP

In an extraordinary art performance, environmentally conscious artist Mark McGowan planned to turn on a cold water tap in the House Gallery in Camberwell, London and leave it running for one year, wasting 15 million litres of water. Due to the intervention of Thames Water, he had to turn it off again.

McGowan says,
‘Basically it's an art piece for people to come and look at and enjoy aesthically, it is also a comment on a social and environment issue.'

For more info and images
07956084780
chunkymark1974@yahoo.com
www.housegallery.org
Running Tap Press
Your Comments - visitor opinions, your thoughts
Running Tap - transcript of BBC interview

BRIGHTON ROCKS

Mark attempted to cartwheel from Brighton to London but collapsed after 4 days
and ended up in the hospital.

PEGGED 2005
The intention was to attach 17,200 multi coloured clothes
pegs onto an alcoholic called Barry. In the end the alcoholics
pegged Mark, but they got bored quite quickly and some
friends pegged Mark instead, only managing 4,500.

SAUSAGE CHIPS AND BEANS 2003

Mark sat in a bath of beans with two chips stuck up his nose
and 48 sausages strapped to his head for two weeks,
he was advocating the consumption of the much maligned
British breakfast.

ARTIST KEYS CAR 2005
In another controversial performance Mark wanderd the streets of
South East London randomly keying cars.

OCEAN WAVE II 2003/4
On December 28th 2003 Mark set out from Peckham
in South East London and attempted to sail 400 miles to Glasgow
in Scotland in a shopping trolley, along the way he collected
gifts from english people intending to hand them out to
the people of Scotland as a reconciliation for the William
Wallace thing. He failed in his attempt after 17 days and 65
miles, due to bad weather conditions and poor equipment.

AUTUMN LEAVES PROTEST 2004
Mark nailed his feet to the gallery wall protesting against leaves.

100,000 KISSES FOR TONY BLAIR 2005

On Election Day, May 5th 2005, Mark successfully kissed an
A4 colour laminated photograph of Tony Blair 100, 000
times, the performance took place outside 10 Downing Street.
He said that he was unsure at the begining where
to kiss the Prime Minister, on the forehead would be like
kissing a baby, on the cheek would be like kissing my mum
and on the lips just seemed gay. In the end he kissed him
on the lips saying i'm not gay, Tony's not gay and everyone
knows that. After 100,000 kisses things did get a bit weird
towards the end.

MONKEY NUT 2003
Mark pushed a monkey nut along the road for 7 miles with his
nose, starting at Goldsmiths College in South London and
ending at Number 10 Downing Street where he handed his nut
in, he was protesting against student fees.

YOU TURKEY 2003
Mark walked backwards for 11miles with a 27lb turkey on top
of his head shouting at fat people along the way through a
homemade loud hailer, it was a piece about the obesity pandemic.

ROLLOVER 2002
Incredibly Mark rolled from the Elephant and Castle to Bethnal Green
singing 'We Wish You A Merry Christmas', in an attempt to get
people to be kind to cleaners for Christmas.

EARLESS 2004
Mark pulled a television along the road with his ear for six miles from
Milan centraltrain station to Silvio Burlesconi's house, protesting
against politicians control of the media.

ARTIST EATS FOX 2004
In a private at home performance, Mark ate a fox which caused
widespread controversy. he said that he was trying
to bring to the attention of people the plight of crackheads.
Stating that a million people marched for foxes and a million
people marched against foxes, but what about the
crackheads who is going to march for them.

BEAT A POLICEMAN 2001
Mark dressed as a metropolitan policeman in Clapham Art Gallery
and invited members of the public to beat him with sticks.
At one point he was chased from the gallery through local streets