London's Fine Art Society pops-up in Hong Kong for seven days next week, with an exhibition juxtaposing three areas of specialism; Modern British Art, Scottish Painting from 1750 and International Contemporary Art. Several names are already familiar to Hong Kong collectors such as the explosive paint-pigment duo Rob and Nick Carter, the Godfather of British Pop Art Sir Peter Blake - his artwork graces the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album - and whose graphic rendering of the Fine Art Society flag [pictured] is on show. Then there's sophisticated mural artist Hugo Dalton, who adapts Asian elements into his site-specific light installation, Redemption. The event revisits notables such as Chris Levine whose reputation has gained regal stature this Diamond Jubilee Year for his luminous portraits of Queen Elizabeth II. There is Melanie Comber's textured abstract surface paintings - are they aerial views or extreme close-up perspectives - in advance of her first solo show at the city's Cat Street Gallery next spring. And Britain's foremost stone carver and sculptor Emily Young, whose exquisite works embody the physical history of each piece of stone and the chronicles of humanity - 2000 BC meets 21st century in her Arco Iris Head.

Joining them is an accessorial list of first-timers in Asia who may represent good value for collectors. These include a key work - The Hit - by playwright, painter and former partner of actress Tilda Swinton, John Bryne, whose work depicts the subtext of danger in urban scenes without cliché-ing the darkness. The Sydney-based realist painter Giles Alexander's layered oil and resin creations, and Mario Rossi’s seascapes, paintings that reveal the symbolic potency and protean unpredictability of the sea in relation to geopolitics, identity and territory.

There's some snazzy photographic work by two practitioners who explore disparate worlds; the telescopic cityscapes (Metropoly) and bug-eyed projections of sky fanatic Peter Newman. Presented like time-zone clocks, these works occupy a mid-point between sculpture, painting and photography. The images are taken with a vintage scientific lens, originally invented for astronomy, that captures a 180-degree view adapted to fit a digital camera. Newman shoots the urban scape overhead and calls the sky a space "in which to conceive and live the future." Young architectural photographer Gina Soden does the opposite. She shoots the past. Rummaging around the abandoned remnants of undisclosed sites in Europe - asylums, ex-military compounds and power stations - her grounded yet glorious images evoke decay in a surprisingly upbeat - and painterly - fashion. She brings the same stature to dereliction as Robert Polidari brought to restoration at France's Versailles Palace. Soden's 27-year-old star beckons and her decaesthetic, otherwise known as 'ruin porn', is one to watch and start snapping up. Romantic, ancient and modern, see it all at The Space.

From 1820 to Now: showing at The Space, 210 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan from Tuesday 13 November to Saturday 18 November, 2012