Walter Auer : Orsolino : the voyages of a small bear

Let me take you on a journey. Like the voyages of Sindbad or Marco Polo, this is not a straightforward excursion from A to B. It is a progression of discoveries. But first let me introduce you to Walter Auer, the creator of Orsolino. Walter is a man of many journeys himself – from his family home in Campo Tures, a mountainous town in Northern Italy, to Nepal via Switzerland, to Faenza, Italy, where he trained in ceramics, to Japan, where he spent a year with a family of potters, to training with a traditional Turkish potter in Cappadocia, to teaching pottery at a leper colony in Ethiopia, to his current location in Sydney, Australia, where he spends his time teaching and working with a group of feisty senior Aboriginal women and guiding them to winning several major awards.