Graduating this year with a first class degree from the Slade, Hawaiian-born artist Alessandra Price is an abstract painter whose practice is largely informed by wider art historical and cultural references. Price’s highly finished glossy surfaces are produced through her idiosyncratic painting process, leading her to experiment with mixing oil paint and crystal resin. Inspired by the work of Tomma Abts, Price explores the possibility of painting geometric forms in an illusionistic style, through which layers of paint are built up to indicate a history of the painting. Admiring the linearity, simplicity of form and flat, graphic qualities of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, Price’s work makes additional reference – through her use of gold and representation of haloes – to the work of Botticelli and other Renaissance painters.