About Alex

My name is Alex Lambie. I am an artist, storyteller, and facilitator, born and living on an island. My work is been shaped by a close relationship with the more-than-human world and a lifelong practice of listening beyond the noise.

Through story and immersive journeys, I invite a wider field of awareness in the more-than-human world — one in which an openness for emergence can be restored around and within us, and the demands that so often dominate our experience no longer define the whole.

In Practice

The work takes different forms depending on the setting, while staying rooted in the same underlying practice.

I share enki and The Lemniscate Journey online and in person, with organisations, groups, gatherings, and individuals.

The work takes the form of guided programmes, residencies, installations, and commissions across artistic, educational, and leadership contexts.

I work independently and through my roles as a UNESCO Futures Literacy Fellow and a Fellow at Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking.

  • I was born and live on an island.


    The more-than-human world called me up trees, over rocks, into the water, and drew my attention not only to the world at my feet and fingers, but also to the skies above, the worlds within, and the space between them all.

    Through these adventures, I began to sense that what seems familiar, bounded, or presumed known can, through not-knowing, become a source of discovery and deeper understanding.

    That sensibility still shapes everything I make and share. I am drawn to what becomes possible when attention softens and expands, and we begin to sense life unfolding around and within us as something larger than the pressures that so often dominate our view.

    As a younger man, I was an activist. Over time, I realised that, whatever I was arguing for, I was still using the same tools of urgency that had helped create the imbalance I wanted to change.

    So I stopped pushing from a place of presumed certainty, moved back to the island, and remembered the practice of not-knowing she had taught me. From this grew enki: first as a story for me to learn from, and then, over time, as a story for me to tell.

    Over the years, I have seen enki and The Lemniscate Journey invite a genuine shift in presence at gatherings around the world. Through that, something became clear to me that remains central to the work:

    everything changes when we let being become the compost of doing.

    I have also seen this wider awareness hold in circumstances of profound uncertainty and loss. It does not remove fear, pressure, or grief, but it can change the way they are met — restoring a wider field in which love, presence, and discernment remain available.

    I believe this capacity belongs to life itself, and that whatever uncertainty we face, it is made gentler and wiser when a wider field of awareness is restored — one in which the regenerative vitality of emergence can be felt again, and what presses upon us no longer defines the whole.

    For years, I overcomplicated my work with enki. Life kept reminding me to get out of the way — and to share what I had been given.