Loske stumbled across Gartside by chance as a graduate student after landing a research fellowship based at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, where she now serves as curator. "They wanted somebody to look into colour theory," she recalls, "and I spent many happy years doing this doctorate, and all I could find was men"s names. And then I came across this one woman and that was Mary Gartside. Just one, and that is what really got me going."