Resolution Rider was a group show of short poems contributed by email open submission.

These poems all used the 'acrostic' or 'mesostic' form - which means that they each spelt out the word RESOLUTION in some way.

The poems were written over the exterior of the taxi in Tippex pen.

A book containing images of the exhibition and all the contributed poems has been published in a limited edition priced @ £10

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I've been interested in acrostic and mesostic poetry for some time and have always wanted to do something with the taxi that involved writing on on the body work - the provocation of the word RESOLUTION was doubly topical referring both to New Year's resolutions and to the issue of the UN resolution 1441 on Iraq which was very much on all our minds at the time. I sent out the invitation to contribute an acrostic or mesostic poem of the word RESOLUTION just before Christmas and was delighted to receive (almost by return email) a contribution from the local Licensed Hackney Cab Office at the council and also the star contribution of a double mesostic of 10 ten letter words (pictured above).

Some time in May I received a visit from a former Taxi Driver who lives in Coventry but comes to visit his daughter who lives nearby fairly regularly. We had a long conversation about Taxi Gallery, about art and mathematics and when I showed him the Resolution Rider book he told me about one of his little hobbies - which is making anagrams from people's names - he wrote down a few of his favourites in the comments book :

SIR KEITH JOSEPH - Perish This Joke

MICHAEL BARRYMORE - I'm a merry bachelor

BARRY MANILOW - library woman

MOTHER-IN-LAW - Woman Hitler

CECIL PARKINSON - Lock penis in car - or - Is no prick clean?

BRITNEY SPEARS - presbyterians

Resolution Rider included contributions from: Mark Mendoza, Mike Woolff, Cathy Wimshurst, Patrick McManus, Chris Emery, Herve Nourisson, Leila Telford, Max Burrows, Tom Burrows, Elspeth Owen, Rishi Nag, Kirsten Lavers, Liam Coulden -Lavers, estaphin, Thelma Mort, Tim Siddell, Nick Skelton, cris cheek, Jane Heeney, Sarah Geary, Joyce Heeney, Jill Preston, Tim Kyle, Martin Baxter, Harry Gilonis, Deborah Harland, Asim Butt, Becky Shaw, Lionel Haines, K. Michael Weaver, Brigid McLeer, Idit Nathan, Nick Duncan, Adam and Mia (aged 6 & 4) and the Taxi Licensing Office,