Dr Alexandra Loske
@colourwoman.bsky.social
Curator of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Colour historian and writer.
German/British. Views my own.
Colour historian and writer.
German/British. Views my own.
The opposite of writer's block:
The Royal Pavilion: A Regency Palace of Colour and Sensation, published this year by @yalebooks.bsky.social .
A few signed copies available in the Royal Pavilion shop.
Pics taken today by Adrienn Deutsch.
The Royal Pavilion: A Regency Palace of Colour and Sensation, published this year by @yalebooks.bsky.social .
A few signed copies available in the Royal Pavilion shop.
Pics taken today by Adrienn Deutsch.
December 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The opposite of writer's block:
The Royal Pavilion: A Regency Palace of Colour and Sensation, published this year by @yalebooks.bsky.social .
A few signed copies available in the Royal Pavilion shop.
Pics taken today by Adrienn Deutsch.
The Royal Pavilion: A Regency Palace of Colour and Sensation, published this year by @yalebooks.bsky.social .
A few signed copies available in the Royal Pavilion shop.
Pics taken today by Adrienn Deutsch.
Reposted by Dr Alexandra Loske
ICMY, the full 2025 Seamus Heaney Lecture, given by Sir Simon Schama on the topic of ‘Politics and the Poet’ and featuring poetry readings by Leanne Best, is now up at youtu.be/KtQVa_H0hEA.
Read more about the lecture @livuninews.bsky.social: news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/11/25/i...
Read more about the lecture @livuninews.bsky.social: news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/11/25/i...
Annual Seamus Heaney Lecture (2025) - Sir Simon Schama - Leanne Best
YouTube video by Institute of Irish Studies, Liverpool
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
ICMY, the full 2025 Seamus Heaney Lecture, given by Sir Simon Schama on the topic of ‘Politics and the Poet’ and featuring poetry readings by Leanne Best, is now up at youtu.be/KtQVa_H0hEA.
Read more about the lecture @livuninews.bsky.social: news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/11/25/i...
Read more about the lecture @livuninews.bsky.social: news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/11/25/i...
Portrait (2025) with Martha (Mary) Gartside's colour blots from 1805. By Jane Palmer.
November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Portrait (2025) with Martha (Mary) Gartside's colour blots from 1805. By Jane Palmer.
Well, this was a bit of a surprise: Helena Bonham Carter with my TASCHEN Book of Colour Concepts in a photoshoot for jewellery designer Larkspur & Hawk. I am thrilled. larkspurandhawk.com/pages/once-u...
November 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Well, this was a bit of a surprise: Helena Bonham Carter with my TASCHEN Book of Colour Concepts in a photoshoot for jewellery designer Larkspur & Hawk. I am thrilled. larkspurandhawk.com/pages/once-u...
When you get a free meal in a very nice museum restaurant because they have a dish on the menu that could have been named after your book.
Thank you, Verde Miami at Perez Art Museum for The Artist's Palette 🎨! (Note the palette knife.)
@princetonupress.bsky.social @thamesandhudson.bsky.social
Thank you, Verde Miami at Perez Art Museum for The Artist's Palette 🎨! (Note the palette knife.)
@princetonupress.bsky.social @thamesandhudson.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
When you get a free meal in a very nice museum restaurant because they have a dish on the menu that could have been named after your book.
Thank you, Verde Miami at Perez Art Museum for The Artist's Palette 🎨! (Note the palette knife.)
@princetonupress.bsky.social @thamesandhudson.bsky.social
Thank you, Verde Miami at Perez Art Museum for The Artist's Palette 🎨! (Note the palette knife.)
@princetonupress.bsky.social @thamesandhudson.bsky.social
On a sabbatical, in Florida. There is a lot of colour in Miami Beach - day and night.
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
On a sabbatical, in Florida. There is a lot of colour in Miami Beach - day and night.
The Colour exhibition at the Royal Pavilion may have finished, but there are some new and exciting colour projects coming up soon. Watch these pigments, Miss Gartside, and my green silk blouse...
(Photo by Stephen Engelhardt)
(Photo by Stephen Engelhardt)
November 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The Colour exhibition at the Royal Pavilion may have finished, but there are some new and exciting colour projects coming up soon. Watch these pigments, Miss Gartside, and my green silk blouse...
(Photo by Stephen Engelhardt)
(Photo by Stephen Engelhardt)
Portrait of Anna Boch holding a splendid neo-Impressionist palette, by Théo van Rysselberghe (1892), and an atmpospheric work by Anna Boch herself, titled Evening (1891).
At the National Gallery's exhibition Radical Harmony.
At the National Gallery's exhibition Radical Harmony.
October 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Portrait of Anna Boch holding a splendid neo-Impressionist palette, by Théo van Rysselberghe (1892), and an atmpospheric work by Anna Boch herself, titled Evening (1891).
At the National Gallery's exhibition Radical Harmony.
At the National Gallery's exhibition Radical Harmony.
The COLOUR exhibition at the Royal Pavilion finishes soon, but I have one more #ColourConversation up my sleeve:
Join me on 11 October, 11am for a talk on colour in the Royal Pavilion.
There will be Prussian Blue, Chrome Yellow, Chinese Vermilion and more!
brightonmuseums.org.uk/event/johndi...
Join me on 11 October, 11am for a talk on colour in the Royal Pavilion.
There will be Prussian Blue, Chrome Yellow, Chinese Vermilion and more!
brightonmuseums.org.uk/event/johndi...
October 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The COLOUR exhibition at the Royal Pavilion finishes soon, but I have one more #ColourConversation up my sleeve:
Join me on 11 October, 11am for a talk on colour in the Royal Pavilion.
There will be Prussian Blue, Chrome Yellow, Chinese Vermilion and more!
brightonmuseums.org.uk/event/johndi...
Join me on 11 October, 11am for a talk on colour in the Royal Pavilion.
There will be Prussian Blue, Chrome Yellow, Chinese Vermilion and more!
brightonmuseums.org.uk/event/johndi...
Went to the @royalacademyarts.bsky.social London to sign a few books.
Did not expect THIS.
Signed copies of The Artist's Palette @thamesandhudson.bsky.social and both versions of The Book of Colour Concepts (TASCHEN) now available at the Academy. 🎨 🎨 🎨
Did not expect THIS.
Signed copies of The Artist's Palette @thamesandhudson.bsky.social and both versions of The Book of Colour Concepts (TASCHEN) now available at the Academy. 🎨 🎨 🎨
September 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Went to the @royalacademyarts.bsky.social London to sign a few books.
Did not expect THIS.
Signed copies of The Artist's Palette @thamesandhudson.bsky.social and both versions of The Book of Colour Concepts (TASCHEN) now available at the Academy. 🎨 🎨 🎨
Did not expect THIS.
Signed copies of The Artist's Palette @thamesandhudson.bsky.social and both versions of The Book of Colour Concepts (TASCHEN) now available at the Academy. 🎨 🎨 🎨
Stepping in for another speaker next week at the Regency Society, to talk about Georgian colour theorist Miss Gartside (and my holiday in Shropshire):
Change of speaker: Wed 17 Sept, Hove Club, Fourth Ave, Hove, 7pm. Alexandra Loske (curator, Royal Pavilion) will tell the story of Mary Gartside, her cultural circles and inspirations. This exclusive lecture for the Society coincides with the COLOUR exhibition at the Pavilion curated by Alexandra.
September 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Stepping in for another speaker next week at the Regency Society, to talk about Georgian colour theorist Miss Gartside (and my holiday in Shropshire):
While searching for the 1819 grave of colour theorist Mary Gartside in Shropshire, I am unwittingly channelling Kate Bush in 1978.
July 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
While searching for the 1819 grave of colour theorist Mary Gartside in Shropshire, I am unwittingly channelling Kate Bush in 1978.
Watching swallows at Stokesay Castle, Shropshire.
July 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Watching swallows at Stokesay Castle, Shropshire.
Up close with the luminous abstract paintings of Mali Morris.
At the @royalacademyarts.bsky.social Summer Exhibition 2025.
At the @royalacademyarts.bsky.social Summer Exhibition 2025.
July 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Up close with the luminous abstract paintings of Mali Morris.
At the @royalacademyarts.bsky.social Summer Exhibition 2025.
At the @royalacademyarts.bsky.social Summer Exhibition 2025.
On Saturday 12 July I will be squeezing colour out of 3 artists as if they were paint tubes:
Peter Messer, Jo Lamb and Julian Bell will be talking about pigments, palettes and paint in the next Colour Conversation at Brighton Museums. Dragon's Blood will fly!
brightonmuseums.org.uk/event/colour...
Peter Messer, Jo Lamb and Julian Bell will be talking about pigments, palettes and paint in the next Colour Conversation at Brighton Museums. Dragon's Blood will fly!
brightonmuseums.org.uk/event/colour...
July 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
On Saturday 12 July I will be squeezing colour out of 3 artists as if they were paint tubes:
Peter Messer, Jo Lamb and Julian Bell will be talking about pigments, palettes and paint in the next Colour Conversation at Brighton Museums. Dragon's Blood will fly!
brightonmuseums.org.uk/event/colour...
Peter Messer, Jo Lamb and Julian Bell will be talking about pigments, palettes and paint in the next Colour Conversation at Brighton Museums. Dragon's Blood will fly!
brightonmuseums.org.uk/event/colour...
It's been quite a week. V&A lecture, heatwave, and book launch of The Royal Pavilion (@yalebooks.bsky.social).
Buried myself in this humongous bunch of flowers this weekend, feeling grateful (and exhausted).
Thank you all for coming!
Buried myself in this humongous bunch of flowers this weekend, feeling grateful (and exhausted).
Thank you all for coming!
July 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
It's been quite a week. V&A lecture, heatwave, and book launch of The Royal Pavilion (@yalebooks.bsky.social).
Buried myself in this humongous bunch of flowers this weekend, feeling grateful (and exhausted).
Thank you all for coming!
Buried myself in this humongous bunch of flowers this weekend, feeling grateful (and exhausted).
Thank you all for coming!
Just really enjoying my job, even on the hottest of days. Introduced my book on the Royal Pavilion ( @yalebooks.bsky.social ) to an audience at the V&A, London.. A beautiful occasion. Thank you all for coming.
The Royal Pavilion, Brighton - Yale University Press London share.google/6q72QwVk3KLs...
The Royal Pavilion, Brighton - Yale University Press London share.google/6q72QwVk3KLs...
July 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Just really enjoying my job, even on the hottest of days. Introduced my book on the Royal Pavilion ( @yalebooks.bsky.social ) to an audience at the V&A, London.. A beautiful occasion. Thank you all for coming.
The Royal Pavilion, Brighton - Yale University Press London share.google/6q72QwVk3KLs...
The Royal Pavilion, Brighton - Yale University Press London share.google/6q72QwVk3KLs...
This coming Tuesday, 1 July, I will be introducing the Royal Pavilion and my new book about it (with Yale University Press) at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Please join me if you can.
The Royal Pavilion, Brighton - Talk at V&A South Kensington www.vam.ac.uk/event/gdpMdq...
The Royal Pavilion, Brighton - Talk at V&A South Kensington www.vam.ac.uk/event/gdpMdq...
The Royal Pavilion, Brighton - Talk at
V&A South Kensington · V&A
Join Dr Alexandra Loske for a captivating exploration of one of Britain’s most fantastical and sensuous architectural creations: the Royal Pavilion in Brighton.
www.vam.ac.uk
June 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This coming Tuesday, 1 July, I will be introducing the Royal Pavilion and my new book about it (with Yale University Press) at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Please join me if you can.
The Royal Pavilion, Brighton - Talk at V&A South Kensington www.vam.ac.uk/event/gdpMdq...
The Royal Pavilion, Brighton - Talk at V&A South Kensington www.vam.ac.uk/event/gdpMdq...
The day before tomorrow: my new book on the Royal Pavilion has arrived in Brighton Museums' shop, and I have been signing a few copies. Publication date 24 June 2025.
@yalebooks.bsky.social
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
@yalebooks.bsky.social
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
June 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The day before tomorrow: my new book on the Royal Pavilion has arrived in Brighton Museums' shop, and I have been signing a few copies. Publication date 24 June 2025.
@yalebooks.bsky.social
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
@yalebooks.bsky.social
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Reposted by Dr Alexandra Loske
Sharon Black wins 39th Frogmore Poetry Prize
Glasgow-born poet Sharon Black now lives in a remote valley of the Cévennes in France. Sharon was previously awarded the Frogmore Prize in 2011 and joins a select group of poets who have won the Prize more than once
www.frogmorepress.co.uk/uncategorize...
Glasgow-born poet Sharon Black now lives in a remote valley of the Cévennes in France. Sharon was previously awarded the Frogmore Prize in 2011 and joins a select group of poets who have won the Prize more than once
www.frogmorepress.co.uk/uncategorize...
Sharon Black wins 39th Frogmore Poetry Prize – The Frogmore Press
www.frogmorepress.co.uk
June 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Sharon Black wins 39th Frogmore Poetry Prize
Glasgow-born poet Sharon Black now lives in a remote valley of the Cévennes in France. Sharon was previously awarded the Frogmore Prize in 2011 and joins a select group of poets who have won the Prize more than once
www.frogmorepress.co.uk/uncategorize...
Glasgow-born poet Sharon Black now lives in a remote valley of the Cévennes in France. Sharon was previously awarded the Frogmore Prize in 2011 and joins a select group of poets who have won the Prize more than once
www.frogmorepress.co.uk/uncategorize...
China in my hand. Hangzhou. It is very wet, but the umbrellas are pretty.
June 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
China in my hand. Hangzhou. It is very wet, but the umbrellas are pretty.
A murmuration of palettes by Cornelia Parker, at Frith Street Gallery, London. With the lovely Zeynep Sagir.
May 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A murmuration of palettes by Cornelia Parker, at Frith Street Gallery, London. With the lovely Zeynep Sagir.
Laburnum arches in bloom, first waterlililes, newts, tadpoles, and dragonflies at Preston Manor, Brighton, this weekend.
May 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Laburnum arches in bloom, first waterlililes, newts, tadpoles, and dragonflies at Preston Manor, Brighton, this weekend.
Flattered. And delighted. And thank you so much for THE Girl, and THE Goldfinch. Next time at @mauritshuis.bsky.social
Yesterday, after many years of SocMed exchanges, reading her books, articles and attending her online talks, I finally met the brilliant Alexandra Loske @colourwoman.bsky.social IRL at her workplace, the Royal Pavilion, Brighton. So lucky to meet one of my superheroes!
May 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Flattered. And delighted. And thank you so much for THE Girl, and THE Goldfinch. Next time at @mauritshuis.bsky.social