effi summers creative

welcome to my first exhibition ‘how are you feeling?’ 🥳 after 2 years of experimenting, playing and developing, my art and style evolved into focusing on textile sculptures that represent feelings, as well as installations that resemble thingies from inside the body 🫀 this is the first introduction to the feelings and I want to encourage people to talk about them more and how they differ from person to person 😇 follow my art over at @seabunnyishere and @longprojects who host the most awesome art exhibitions in their window - we’ll be delving more into the process over on these accounts 👌🏼🩵 #kunst #kunstner #textileartist #copenhagen #copenhagencreative #cphkunst #textileart #artinstallation #artexhibition

welcome to my second exhibition ‘under the sea (bunny)’ 🪼💙 after creating giant jellyfish for Pride a couple years ago I started creating weird, eerie but loveable sea creatures out of discarded textiles and trash and voila this is the result ✌🏼 I use a technique called ‘boiled shibori’ to make bubbles in the fabric; this worked super well for the wall pieces which are based on abstract sea plants 🪻 this exhibition will be up for the whole of september (apart from the octopus who will depart on the 13th) at @noerrebro.bibliotek if you want to catch it ☺️🩵 and follow @seabunnyishere is u want to see more of my art tings 🐙 #textileartist #textileart #underthesea #artinstallation #artexhibition #kunstner #cphkunst #seabunnyishere

I made a giant textile octopus for @seabunnyishere and it’s exhibiting throughout february at nørrebrohallen 🐙✌🏼 #textileart #textiles #textileartist #giantoctopus #octopussculpture #fabricsculpture #copenhagencreative #cphkunst

🥚 my first and definitely not the last EGGLYMPICS 🥚  after casually discussing easter plans and ideas we surpassed the simple ones and landed on egglympics as the obvious choice to celebrate this very long danish easter weekend 🐣  things escalated further from there and we ended up with an intricate points system and prizes for the winners 🥇 we went through 4 different rounds in total: - egg painting - egg rolling (3 times) - egg and spoon race (3 times) - egg throwing (had to go last for obvious reasons) my cute egg who I named Pistachio won the painting round and I also won the egg and spoon race (!) but I never have been and never will be a thrower so another awesome warrior snagged those crowns 👑  much to everyone’s surprise, all googly eyes stayed in tact and we only had one casualty after the throwing round! and my only regret is not capturing that casualty in slow motion because it was a spectacular smash 💥  yay egglympics! 🥳

hello and welcome to some recent art pieces that have been birthed into the family: 1. pure (a tiny piece for an upcoming exhibition in Londonnnn bbyyyyy) 2. my hands are tied (also will be traveling to London) 3. a gym shark who is living permanently at Hier 🩵 4. nudes (joining the traveling ones!) 5. decluttering (an ongoing conceptual piece that represents the clutter and waste within our homes. all the clutter has been crocheted and I have some fun future plans for this so let’s see where it goes ooh) 6. dysfunctional familie (an installation depicting the underlying toxicity of a supposedly ‘perfect’ family portrait. here we have the ugliness, vulnerability and imperfections on the outside) live long and live well my pretties ✌🏼 I’ll be adding some other smaller pieces to take to London and also planning a larger scale installation for the summer in Copenhagen 👀 #textileart #textiles #textileartist #textilesculpture #kunstner

this flutterby is ready to emerge from the chrysalis and take up some fuuuckkking space 🦋

I made a shark for HIER gym! 🦈 I saw the big white wall and just knew a monochrome black shark was the right creature for the job! and it didn’t occur to me at the time that shark in danish is haj, ‘sharks’ is hajer (pronounced like higher) and the gym is called HIER (pronounced like higher)! hello synchronicity 😍 thanku for @hier.training for helping me train and making me increase weights and I hope this shark brings much joy to everyone’s training! 🖤 (scroll to see me carrying it on the metro lol)

I’ve been fully embracing the seasons more each year and it turns out the books are right, it does make u feel better and maybe calmer? ☃️ it turns out I AM actually a human who fluctuates like nature and the seasons do and I just am not equipped for a robotic lifestyle 🤖 my training organically changes each season (this winter has been all about lifting heavier and getting in a strength routine) and so does what I eat. wintery fruits and veggies are great not just because they’re cheaper and last longer right now but because they compliment my winter vibes. bring on the sprouts woo! winter brings earlier work finishes for me, I lose momentum as the dusk sweeps over. and the long dark days mean falling asleep slightly earlier and starting the day a bit later but it’s ok because in midsummer it all does a switcheroo 🌅 even though my work days are shorter, I am usually super motivated in the colder temperatures (I tend to ‘potato’ more in the summer) so can get more focused chunks of work done and dusted. alongside all these winter changes, activities are adapted too. building snowpeople, baking for friend visits, browsing galleries and saturday night tv while crocheting take a front seat for three months as sheltering from the copenhagen wind and staying snuggled in blankets is priority ☺️  not to mention the winter wardrobe comes out to play; it’s the snood’s time to shine and I get to awaken my jumpers from their hibernation which always brings me joy 🧥  don’t get me wrong, I will be super excited for spring, but right now I’m in love with winter ❄️

I found my old sketchbook from fashion university and looking back it made me realise the foundations of @seabunnyishere were all there, forming their early stages 🐰 my first assignment was during the summer: we had to pick a word and fill a sketchbook with the exploration of it, then bring it in on the first day. lovely. I genuinely was concerned that everyone would pick the same words and it would be the ones with the most variation and room for exploration so I picked ‘dirty’ but was a bit worried that it wouldn’t be that original. I explored mould and bacteria and crime and mud and trash and looked at some photographers that fitted the brief too. I had a lof of fun and got stuck in 🥰  I went in on the first day and handed it in, wonderful. then, in the afternoon we got given our books back and I found out we had to present them to the class. it was then the realisation hit me that literally everyone else had picked words like ‘delicate’, ‘elegant’, ‘feminine’ and ‘pretty’ 😬 one girl had taken photos of a tea party complete with floral dresses and fancy china teacups. uh oh. I started presenting and people were humouring me for a while but then I realised that one of the pages included a dissected placenta (slide 1 lol) and it’s safe to say that’s when I lost the room and from then on my tutor heavily disliked me. she asked me what it was and then swiftly moved on as though she wanted to remove it from her memory 🥲  at this point I felt like I’d gone right in at the deep end so might as well keep moving in that direction. I used my time there to develop and to find out what I like and explore my style more. and looking back it was the start of sea bunny! the inspiration from creepy dolls and vintage toys seems to add a sprinkle of eerie to everything I do 🧟 I played with watercolouring bacteria in this book and now I do all my concept sketches in watercolour (they have slightly less bacteria though hopefully). and the overall experimentation of mess, dirt and finding beauty in the distressed has stuck and still has a place in my work and soul. n’aww what a little foetus this sketchbook is 👶🏻

ten years ago we visited copenhagen for the first time and this week we celebrated getting permanent residency with a wonderful lunch at @bistroverdecph 🇩🇰 (check out the polaroids of every doggo who’s visited the restaurant! 🥹) for a process that is deemed by some to be quite quick, my application seemed to fall down a rabbit hole… 🥴  firstly my email notifications decided to not come through so I was late booking a biometrics appointment. when I finally got to the appointment and approached the counter, an extremely fashionable man began furiously typing without acknowledging me, for at least eight minutes. he then proceeded to call over a couple of colleagues and they spoke very fast in danish but every few sentences I heard the word ‘brexit’. whatever hurdle that was was then overcome whilst I remained blissfully unaware and I got to do biometrics. woo. following that they needed more information from me because the bank statements I had to convince the bank to give me had some months missing. I filled the gaps and resent them twice but continually received the ‘we need more information’ letter. I called up and was told that they were questioning if I was allowed to stay in the country because I had ‘maybe been outside of Denmark’ for the months that the bank statements had been missing… I then became ‘very stressed’ and re-sent the information again with a message explaining the situation. I called up again and was told ‘everything is fine, now you need to play the waiting game’. I don’t love games and the waiting game is my least favourite but I patiently played it for 6 whole months. then, after the boy’s residence came through in 3 weeks (!!!!) I sent another message asking please for an update as by this point my hair was falling out. two days after receiving a reply message that said ‘still being processed’ IT CAME THROUGH and I can finally breathe and regrow my hair 💁🏻‍♀️ and through it all I’ve learnt to always check my emails and that the meaning of brexit truly is more admin for all but I get to live in my favourite city so all is okay 😊

I started on my colourful pathway as a spritely young chicken designing for the fashion brand Irregular Choice. I designed a fun trainer collection (I still have a pair of lightup unicorn trainers I designed), seasonal graphics/characters for the packaging and occasionally store interiors 🐣 it was a great job but I felt a bit restricted as there was no room for growth and just one single style to stick to. so I jumped from here to starting a music school with the local @4stringboy . he was looking to work as a private music teacher and I had the entrepreneurial spirit and design/marketing skills to get it off the ground 🌱 teamwork makes the dreamwork and our little school grew quite quickly until we had a team of teachers to manage, as well as group workshops and events to host as well 🎶 but then the brexit doom clouded over us and we knew if we wanted to ever live abroad, it was today or never. we needed to make other changes too; I was stunted creatively and 4stringboy was swapping time for money and endlessly teaching 😮‍💨 so we upped and moved and in the process recalibrated on what we wanted our lives and business to look like. this resulted in so much stress and hard work don’t get me wrong haha but also in growing an online presence, the most wonderful community, new friends and a focus on building passive income in order to be able to serve more people and free up our time 🤩 I managed to build my own lille thing alongside this and was designing for some fun clients, as well as consulting and doing workshops for musicians on branding and marketing 👩🏼‍🎤 however the last couple of years have brought another round of recalibration. my leo moon finally got me ready to be an actual artist and create my own work. I value creative fulfilment and freedom above everything so this felt like an important step for me 🦁 and I still get joy from helping other people take the leap into the entrepreneurial world but I only consult with creatives, weirdos, adventurers and unicorns now. I love that I can help others with the business side while keeping the creativity for my own shenanigans ✌🏼

🧚🏻 nyd 🧚🏻 I don’t do resolutions but more of continually working towards things I want to do or be or have and sometimes striding backwards and sometimes leaping forward and I aim to continue on that wobbly but colourful path 🤹🏻‍♀️ this year I want to keep training and jumping higher and getting stronger and fitter. I want to keep building passive income and put my art out there more and keep having adventures and meeting new people and hearing their stories and laughing until it hurts 🩵 I want more real conversations and even less surface ones and to keep my routines that are Good and drop anything that’s just a tickbox and more walking in nature and maybe having the odd glass of wine 🍷 I wanna be the person that consistently eggs people on to do the things they are scared to do and hears their darkness more comfortably and gives better hugs 🤗 I wanna read more and write more and scroll less and create more and make time for my own work whilst ignoring distractions for that block of time ✌🏼 anyway, hello 2026, I am ready to be my biggest boldest self and ‘ascension’ into u 🥳 #2026 #nyd #newyear #letsgo