Breakfast Special, 1986-97

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Mr Emerson eats out. 5 cities, 5 breakfasts, 5 stories, 5 starts to the day. To find the true identity of a city eat breakfast in it. The international scene changes provided an opportunity to explore local atmosphere and detail in which typography was as vital to the descriptive effect as the imagery with which it merged.
Tilson used typographic elements from newspapers, magazines, wine labels and shop fronts to suggest the visual grain of the five cities.

Breakfast Special - a set of five books
El Dottore di Terracotta Arezzo. Italian text.
La Carte Propre Marais, Paris. French text.
Miasto Alphabet East Village, New York City. Polish text.
El Cabellette di Piedra Barrio Gotico, Barcelona. Spanish text.
Southwark Soil Creep Peckham, London. English text. Breakfast Special 1986-87 b&w xerox, 2-colour xerox, Canon Laser copy, offset litho, instantprint, crayon, rubber stamps Five softback books.
18 x 15 cm

"Whether by intention or not, the overall effect is one of compassion, of man as vulnerable animal undertaking a passage of survival in which his highest hopes are brought down to earth by the needs which determine our everyday rituals ....Breakfast Special is first and foremost a purely visual adventure, and one which succeeds."

Cathy Courtney - ART MONTHLY.

Breakfast Special - editioned collages
El Dottore di Terracotta Arezzo.
La Carte Propre Marais, Paris.
Miasto Alphabet East Village, New York City.
El Cabellette di Piedra Barrio Gotico, Barcelona.
Southwark Soil Creep Peckham, London.
Breakfast Special 1986-89 editioned collages, a set of five, mixed media on paper.
70.5x50cm

El Dottore di Terracotta Arezzo.

La Carte Propre Marais, Paris.

Miasto Alphabet East Village, New York City.

El Cabellette di Piedra Barrio Gotico, Barcelona.

Southwark Soil Creep Peckham, London.

exhibited at
2000 Typo, Ikon Gallery Birmingham, touring show.
1988 Paper, Amics, Tokyo.
1989 Electrographies, Hardware Gallery.
1988 Prints, Pomeroy Purdey Gallery.
1988 Bound Image, Milton Keynes, Spacex, Nigel Greenwood, Artsite
20 Years of British Art from the Sackner Archive, BASS Museum, Miami, Florida.
1989 British Artists Books Arthur Anderson
1993 Work & Turn, tour
Contemporary British Artists Books, Scarborough. Contemporary British Artists Books, Hardware Gallery.
1994 Looking at Words Reading Pictures , London.
Artists Books, The Minories, Colchester.
1995 Artists Books, the Tate Gallery, London.
1998 Artist/Author, Contemporary Artists' Books, USA touring the American Federation of Arts.

appeared in these articles
Bookworks at the Getty Feeling Free, Michael Dooley, Print Jan-Feb p67-68.
1991 Maps and Dreams, Rick Poynor, Eye no2 p22-31,
1990 Breakfast Special, Cathy Courtney, Art Monthly, no133, p24-26.

featured in these books
1989 Jake Tilson (monograph), text Marco Livingstone, Art Random, Japan.