Mette Stausland works exclusively within the tradition of drawing. She described her early experience through drawing, when she was a girl growing up on the southern coast of Norway.
After training as a dancer she transferred her interests to visual art following an injury that halted her career in dance. Stausland studied Fine Art at Vestlandets Kunstakademi, Bergen, Norway and at the Kunstakademiet Stockholm, followed by the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Holland.
