Bethany Copsey
Planetary Poetics
Biography
Bethany is a writer, soil scientist, environmental activist, creative practitioner, and campaign coordinator. Born in England, raised in Aotearoa New Zealand, living in the Netherlands, with Irish roots, she often goes between these places and sees peatlands as one way to link and traverse these places.
Unmoored
The piece takes its beginning from moor, a type of wet, wonderful, soggy environment that my practice is dedicated to. Unmoored, as a process of no longer being moor, this work weaves together strands of extraction, family history, gold mining, migration, loss, and change.