Artist and teacher, born in Yorkshire. She studied painting, 1965–9, at University of Reading fine art department, gaining her master’s degree there, 1970–2. In 1969 Hallam won a Boise Travelling Scholarship. Went on to lecture part-time at colleges including Reading University and Hull College of Higher Education. Exhibitions included Platform ’72, in 1972, at Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Spirit of London, at Royal Festival Hall, 1979–80; Hull Print Competition, at Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, 1980–1; and Painters + Sculptors from the Greenwich Studios, at Woodlands Art Gallery, 1981.