Welcome to Mette Sterre's website - 
costume design & performance

Mette Sterre (Rotterdam,1983) is a costumer designer  and performer, with a background in fine art, currently studying a MA degree in performance design & practice, at Central Saint Martins. She's currently based in London. 

Her work deals with the grotesque: the world of topsy-turvy, the uncanny and the paradox.

Inspired by the repetitive patterns in nature, sociology and cultural history in the field of  horror movies, she creates sculptural costumes with unusual materials, working on the border of theatre and live art.

Eventhough it's a surrealistic world she creates, it actually  signifies inter human relationships. She wants to confront the viewer with ambiguous perspectives on our society, oppposing to the western social and economics structures.

While using attraction by repulsion, the power of humour and craftsmanship, she lures the viewer into her work. 

Current exhibitions/performances/publications

• Work of mine has been included in the magazine make8believe;  ISSUE #4: OCDMAKE8ELIEVE is an online magazine, born of a collaboration between two artists, Michelle Marie Murphy (Ohio) and Baptiste Lefebvre (a.k.a. Cetusss) (Switzerland). "With MAKE8ELIEVE, we'd like to build international connections by publishing creative interpretations of one topic per issue. We believe we can organize an intelligent, challenging, and well designed magazine with contemporary and unusual topics."   Check out the fabulous magazine here: http://issuu.com/make8elieve/docs/m8-04
• Saturday 17th of august I shall perform at HARDCAMP, in the Resistance Gallery in London. Saturday 17 August 2013h. 20:00 – 02:00 @ Resistance Gallery, 265 Poyser Street, Bethnal Green London E2 9RF
  HARD CAMP is a pop-up exhibition, fashion show, performance art event and club night with live music, DJs and dance. The exhibition will include live art performances and artworks installed in different locations of the venue. The show aims to fuse and intertwine the two apparently opposite aesthetics – typically associated with queer culture: the leather and dark fetish with the more allegedly ‘effeminate’ colour-infused camp. The exhibition includes a variety of media and art practitioners from London and abroad who seek to create a dialogue between these two aesthetic forms. Curated by Giulia Casalini, in collaboration with Ana Grahovac and Diana Georgiou.