Haslam, Jane

22/09/2009

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Jane Haslam is originally from Whitby in Yorkshire but lives in Colchester in Essex. She talks of how she has always been someone's daughter, someone's wife or someone's mother and she has recently come to realise that she is her own person within all of that as well. Her husband is currently living in Singapore where she intends to move in the next year now that her children are old enough to look after themselves. Once her children hit their teens she decided to go back to study and did a degree in humanities. She now works as a Rare Books Librarian which she loves. On the plinth she is doing things that reflect herself, she will lay down Chinese silks to represent her move to Singapore, scattering red roses as her husband gives them to her every year and reading books she relates to herself and the setting.