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 and broadcast widely on colour, including Colour: A Visual History, and A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry. Among her recent works are the substantial Book of Colour Concepts (TASCHEN, 2024), the first monograph on pioneer Mary Gartside, Abstract Visions of Colour (2024), and The Royal Pavilion, Brighton: A Regency Palace of Colour and Sensation (Yale UP, 2025). Her latest book on colour is The Artist’s Palette (Thames & Hudson, 2024).