Studio HermiH is the home of both the collaborative work of Naomi Lewis and Charlie Cattrall, and Lewis’s further collection of work.  HermiH is the name of the forthcoming book, created by the pair, whose inception came during the covid lockdown.  Their creative collaboration was born in an artists lab in Brixton, where over many years they built a container for the generation of work, rooted in the principles of freedom and the unknown, always practicing at the edge of what felt comfortable, a commitment to which remains in their work today.  Lewis recently completed an MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art and Cattrall trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.  Lewis is a multi-disciplinary artist working across film, performance and writing.  At the axis of her work is a belief that our relationship with the maternal, as an agentive force inherent in nature, is in tatters.  Having grown up with a mother who suffered serious mental illness, that in turn coloured every aspect of family life, she has become engaged with examining wider themes of how societal disregard for mothering forms and ways, entangled with our reliance upon them, impacts who we are and how we behave.   This intersects with an equal gaze on her examination of our knotted relationship with the erotic, and her perception that this is predominantly reduced to the narrow confines of physical sexuality within current society, acting as an effective structure of governance and control.  In her practice she continually seeks the the decolonisation of these two generative foundations, a fulcrum of existence seeking open space.