Dressing The Air is the brainchild of the London-based artist Paul Schütze.

In a career spanning 30 years, Schütze has exhibited his photographic and installation works in galleries and museums around the world, released over thirty albums of original recordings, scored a number of films and performed numerous concerts. He has collaborated with artists such as James Turrell, Josiah McElheny and Isaac Julien and musicians as diverse as Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Toshinori Kondo, Lol Coxhill and Jah Wobble.

Dressing The Air is a unique open resource that aims to enrich creative thinking by encouraging a multi-sensory approach. A constantly evolving archive and creative news feed, Dressing The Air monitors and reports on a diverse range of art-forms from cinema to sculpture, painting to furniture design, land-art to perfumery.

dressing the air: the bureau of sensory intelligence

a creative resource to provoke and inspire

Nakashima Harumi
Nakashima

Nakashima Harumi

These unassuming ceramic objects share a precise and faithfully organic formal language. They look as though they might be faithful replicas of marine creatures even down to the playful patterns of spots across their surfaces. There is also a strong sense, perhaps rooted in the careful observation of material and animal behavior evident, that they move, of their own volition and in the currents and eddies of some unseen fluid environment. Encoded in the these shapes is a narrative of life and place which can be read by anyone who sees them. 

Nakashima Harumi
"If Palladio's proportions are derived from the regularities of the outside of the human body, perhaps Walpole's calculated hodgepodge is a guess at the inside, which is not in fact symmetrical, as if the body meant to suggest the difference between subjective and objective knowledge."
- Robert Harbison, 1977, Eccentric Spaces