Dr Alexandra Loske FSA is a British-German art historian, writer, and Curator of the Royal Pavilion in Brighton. She read English and Linguistics at Humboldt University, Berlin, and Art History at the University of Sussex, where she is a Research Associate, working on women in colour history. In 2024 she gave the Mondrian Lecture on colour at the Sikkens Prize award ceremony in Rotterdam.

Alexandra has published widely on colour, including Colour: A Visual History, and A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry. In 2024 she published the substantial Book of Colour Concepts (TASCHEN), as well as the first monograph on Mary Gartside (Abstract Visions of Colour). Her latest book on colour is The Artist’s Palette (Thames & Hudson). In June 2025 she published a major new book on the Royal Pavilion with Yale University Press, with the title The Royal Pavilion, Brighton: A Regency Palace of Colour and Sensation.