After graduating from the jewellery design course at Hornsey College of Art David Poston worked as an artist-jeweller using mainly non-precious metals and other materials from 1970 until 1984, and then again from 2000 until the present day.  In between he has worked to assist in the development of sustainable livelihoods in fourteen different African countries (the subject of his published PhD thesis), contributed inventions through medical technology research, introduced a 3D haptic interface to potential developers in the UK, was involved internationally in several high-tech start-up companies and spent three years as leader of the Jewellery and Silversmithing programme at Loughborough University.  David is now once more working full-time as an artist, primarily making jewellery.  Born in 1948 he lives in Suffolk, being happily married with two adult children.

Exhibitions include 
2010 “Collect” - Crafts Council at the Saatchi Gallery (with The Scottish Gallery)
          “Matter 4” solo exhibition at The Dovecote, Edinburgh with IC; Innovative Craft
          “Sitting & Looking” at The Dovecote, Edinburgh and at Ruthin Craft Centre with IC; Innovative Craft
2008, 2009 “Origin”, London
2004,2005,2006, 2007, 2008 “Collect” - Crafts Council at the V&A
2003 "30/30 Vision"  Crafts Council London & tour
1994 "What is Jewellery?" exhibition curator, Crafts Council 
1986 "10th Anniversary exhibition", Galerie Ra, Amsterdam  
1985 "Crafts Council Collection" Crafts Council 
1985  St Hugh Head Shrine Canopy, Lincoln Cathedral (with Alan Evans) 
1984 "Contemporary Jewellery", National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo
1982 "The Maker's Eye", Crafts Council, London 
         "Towards a New Iron Age", Victoria and Albert Museum & USA
         "Making It", Crafts Council
1980  Solo exhibition, British Craft Centre (now CAA), London
1975  "Jewellery in Europe", Scottish Arts Council and CAC (now Crafts Council) (& exhibition poster).
           Solo exhibition at Electrum Gallery, London
           Solo exhibition at Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol

Published
"Under the Mango Tree: mobile training for small-scale tool and implement production in Africa" book text commissioned by the Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of UN.  (Kiswahili version "Chini ya Mwembe" 1998 by Ndanda Mission Press, Tanzania.)
"Factfile on Jewellery" Crafts Council, London 1995 (with M Wilson)(40pp)
"Approaches to the Development of Small-Scale Metalworking in Sub-Saharan Africa" research report, ITDG Rugby, 1994 (50 pp).
"What is Jewellery?" exhibition catalogue, Crafts Council, London 1994.
"The Utilisation of Research Results" paper for South Commission Science & Technology conference, Arusha, Tanzania, 1992.
"The Blacksmith and the Farmer: Rural Manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa" Intermediate Technology Publications, London, 1994, reprint 2005 (160 pp).
"Comment: Art versus Income" in Crafts Magazine, July/August 1986.
"Tools of the Trade" in British Blacksmith Magazine, 1986.
"The Crafts Council Collection" Crafts Council, 1985, introduction to metalwork section of catalogue and book.
"Hand Tools" in Designing Magazine Number 6, summer 1984.
"Comment: The Medium is not the Message", Crafts Magazine, May 1984.
"Forging an Existence" in Crafts Magazine, May/June 1980.

Known published references include
Mansell, Amanda “Adorn” Laurence King 2008
Harrod, Tanya  “The Crafts in Britain in the Twentieth Century” Yale University Press 1999
Turner, Ralph "Jewellery in Europe & America: new times, new thinking" Thames & Hudson 1996.
Pulee, Caroline "20th Century Jewellery" Quintet 1990.
Dormer P & Turner R "The New Jewellery" Thames & Hudson 1985.
Cartlidge, Barbara "20th Century Jewellery" Harry Abrahams, NY 1985.
Broadhead, Caroline "New Tradition" Contemporary Applied Arts 1985.
Scarisbrick D, et al "Jewellery: Makers, Motifs, History, Techniques" T&H 1985.
Crafts Council "Making It" catalogue & video tape, Crafts Council 1982.
Turner, Ralph "Contemporary Jewellery" Studio Vista 1976.
Lucie-Smith, Edward "The World of the Makers" Paddington Press 1975.
Coleman, Marigold in Crafts Magazine, July/August 1974.
Architectural Design Magazine, April 1970.

Patent Applications include
“Informatics Systems Weaves” (Poston D, Poston T, Raghavan, Rappel.)
“A Method for Magnifying a Computer Generated Image and a Graphic User Interface incorporating said Method.”  (Poston D, Poston T, Warusavithana, Rappel.)
“Search & Presentation Engine” (Poston T, Raghavan R, Fenton M, Poston D)
"Fabrication of light weight metal objects" (Poston D)
“Cortical catheters” (Poston D)
“Adjustable Tensioner” (Poston D)