"Jim Hamlyn partitions off spaces in the gallery with sheets of non-glare transparent polystyrene. The material makes everything out of focus except that which is placed up close behind it. As the titles make clear - f2.8 and f5.6 - the work addresses a particular photographic way of seeing. But instead of views ordinarily seen through the little rectangular viewfinder of a camera, here we physically come up against a whole doorway of 'photographic sight'. Through beautiful and succinct interventions, Hamlyn alters our perception and physical relationship to the gallery space. A reading room in the gallery is screened off, made inaccessible and diffused: only the edge of a paint covered stepladder is in focus, all else, chairs and shelves, are blurred. A window to an upstairs workspace in the gallery is replaced, illuminated by the light of a projector, the transparent polystyrene which has been put in its place gives us a photographic picture: a pile of focussed books and blurred chairs."

Mark Durden (from the catalogue).