Artists need the support of business, but we need to give artists more time to be artists

Noelle Campbell-Sharp is an artist with a head for business, and the famous Cill Rialaig retreat just one example of her visionary thinking

Noelle Campbell-Sharp Pic: Bryan Meade

CV: Noelle Campbell-Sharp

Role: entrepreneur, gallerist

Age: 75

Lives: Ballinskelligs, Co Kerry

Family: separated and still looking

Favourite book: From the Sea Hound, poems by Stephen Murphy

Favourite film: The Godfather

Noelle Campbell- Sharp opens the door dressed in an acid-yellow tartan kilt, her hair a halo of bleached-blonde curls, and her smile would light up a banqueting hall. At 75 she’s growing old as wonderfully as only she knows how.

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