Jul Drake (they/them/theirs) is a Collage and Mixed-Media Artist, Herbalist-in-training, and Occultist based in Washington DC. Drawing on their Irish-American heritage and their LGBTQIA+ identities, their art is an excavation of duality and shadow. Collage became an outlet to express gender and sexuality in high school before it was safe to do so and they love collage’s ability to fragment the past while building the future. In combining collage and witchcraft, each of Jul’s pieces become active spiritual medicine with the purpose of helping humanity reclaim their right to expansiveness and embodiment.

Jul has been walking between worlds their entire life, a concept known in Irish spirituality and Trans identity. Among the frenzy of color and movement throughout each of their pieces is an intentional pulse of oneness often found in the natural world where their collage inspiration began.

Beyond collage, Jul has four years of experience cultivating high-level programs around the world for a network of 40,000 women and femme entrepreneurs and has also worked supporting survivors of gender-based violence in hotline service. They have worked many different jobs within the service industry for over 10 years and deeply value connection with vast and varied community. They are currently in a six year program studying Irish Herbal Medicine in Ireland to deepen their reciprocity with the Earth and their connection to their precolonial ancestral land, culture, and practice.

Liberation and justice have historically been the bedrock of collage, witchcraft and herbalism, and Jul is honored to weave these mediums to continue their legacies of repair.