Ceramist, sculptor and teacher, born in Brighton, Sussex, one of the first important potters to use the slab-building technique. In 2005 he was included in the exhibition Camberwell in the 1970s: Teachers and Students, at Galerie Besson, which highlighted his influence. Auld began painting while in the Navy during World War II, then trained at Brighton College of Art, 1947–8; studied painting and printmaking at the Slade School of Fine Art, 1948–51, in the latter year being taught hand-building by William Newland; and at London University Institute of Education, 1951–2. Auld became a technician at the Central School of Art and Design, 1952–4, after a short period in a commercial pottery. From 1954–7 Auld was based in Baghdad, Iraq, creating a pottery department in the Art School there, travelling widely, Persian ceramics becoming an influence on his work.