The move from one point to the next sets the mind racing. Each turn makes a new path and we continue, with directions altered and every outcome marked by the journey through which it came.

Readers Archive identifies the punctuation marks along many and varied pathways of reading and research. By uncovering the links made by others, be they linear or tangential, Readers Archive offers up a list of possible turning points for further reading and departure.

Each month an invited contributor writes a text, which discusses the process of research within their personal practice as a writer, maker or musician. Further access to those followed avenues of research are given through a list of works the selector considers to have been key on that journey. For the duration of the month this selection will be available to view at Donlon Books.

Each essay and list will be available to take away during each month's selection and subsequently from this online archive.

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Credits

Readers Archive is a project by Ilsa Colsell, Connor Donlon and Roland Brauchli.

Ilsa Colsell
Graduating from Goldsmiths and the Glasgow School of Art, Ilsa now lives and works in London as a freelance writer. Past writing includes texts on Victorian Spiritualism, (Forsyth & Pollard, Silent Sound exhibition catalogue) to the Psychology of Emotion, (Jesper Just, exhibition catalogue) and the Memorial, (Past Forward, exhibition catalogue) and most recently the place of belief in the action of experience (Matt Stokes, exhibition catalogue).
Ilsa is the editor of Readers Archive.

Conor Donlon
Conor opened independent bookshop, Donlon Books in 2005. The bookshop moved to its new space on Cambridge Heath Road in 2008 from its original location inside Herald Street Gallery and has also grown to include a second shop on Broadway Market. Donlon Books continues to specialise in new artists' books and their related printed ephemera, alongside theory and publications of the rare and very particular.

Roland Brauchli
A graduate of University of Art and Design Basel, Switzerland and Cooper Union, NY, Roland is an artist who lives and works in London and is currently studying an MA in Book Art at Camberwell University of Arts, London. Roland also works as a graphic designer with Graphic Thought Facility (GTF).
Roland is the creator of all printed matter for Readers Archive.

All web development by Rory Colsell.

With thanks to The Elephant Trust.