biography
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​Paul Schütze has worked for forty years as an artist in the fields of, sound, photography, video, and installation. He was a founding            member of Australian experimental band Laughing Hands and of Phantom City: an international collective of musicians working both live and virtually from points across the globe. He has performed with sound & film works in over a dozen countries and released over thirty albums of original music. Over the decades he has worked with Bill Laswell, Simone de Haan, Toshinori Kondo, Clive Bell, David Toop, Dirk Wachtaeler, Jah Wobble, Raoul Björkenheim, Andrew Hulme, Max Eastly, Robert Hamson, Thomas Köner, Lol Coxhill and Alex Buess. His art works have been exhibited in numerous international galleries and museums. He has also worked with artists including James Turrell, Josiah McElheny & Isaac Julien. In 2014 Paul began to develop olfactory elements for his exhibition Silent Surface, creating a perfume called In Libro De Tenebris. In 2016 He launched fragrance house Paul Schütze Perfume with partner Chris Rickwood. In 2022 they relocated from London, home for the thirty years since Paul moved from Australia, to the Kent coast. Paul is currently developing a book on sensory ecology.