Megan James is a British-American multidisciplinary artist working in photography, filmmaking, painting, and sculpture. James is currently studying water at the crux of survival and spirituality through an archaeological lens; seeing water as both weather’s protagonist and a site of pilgrimage. Imitating the current crisis of over human manipulation, James’ work involves processes of layering, documenting the separation from origins. 

James was born in Surrey, UK, in 1994, raised in North London, and spent her teenage years in rural Germany. She completed her BA in Fine Art at California Baptist University in Southern California in 2015 going on to work as an archaeological illustrator and high school art teacher. James has exhibited in Los Angeles, Rhode Island, Berlin, and the Netherlands, and is currently in her second year of the MFA Programme at Goldsmiths, University of London, graduating in 2026.