"In terms of inviting participation, Jim Hamlyn's Conversions, were both seductive and threatening, creating a physical space for contemplation and caution through their surreal element of danger. Comprising one light bulb and two strip lights immersed in buckets full of water, they defamiliarised banal domestic objects, in a way which not only posed a threat to the linguistic understanding of those objects, but also to the viewer's sense of physical security. Although these works were electrically 'safe', such an iconoclastic use of objects was unsettling in its relation to commonplace meanings. Hamlyn's work was for me the most compelling here in that explored the meanings and uses of light and energy, rather than celebrating light as something in itself."

Euan Morrison, Variant Magazine.