Emma Burrett

The London Art scene is slowly picking up after the slovenly Christmas break and will be fully bouncing back this week with a number of new shows, fresh artists and novel events to kick start 2010.

MONDAY

Find out tonight what the Slade School students are up to in their new group show at Swiss Cottage Gallery. Rigorously selected works by the undergraduates will underline the breadth of approaches and techniques encouraged by the school.

WEDNESDAY

The London Art Fair, established in 1988, is regarded as the official green light of the new art season. Opening on Wednesday 13th January in the Business Design Centre, Islington, the fair will bring together some of the biggest names in modern and contemporary British art, though the international galleries exhibiting are growing. The usual suspects will all be there but look out for emerging names from Jaggedart, TAG Fine Art and Union Gallery. In conjunction with the main fair, Art Projects comprised of 25 entities dedicated to promoting up and coming talent will be seen in a new space at the fair for the first time. Strong contributions will no doubt be proffered by 176/Zabludowicz Collections Editions, Bearspace prints and Summarria Luna. London Art Fair will run from 13 - 18th January, for more information click here.

THURSDAY

Camberwell Art Space is celebrating the new year with an exciting group show Lexicon featuring recent works by former Camberwell graduates including Richard Moon, Paradise Row's Barry Reigate, Jenny Wiener and Hyo Myounh Kim to name but a few. Caroline Rothwell, one of the featured artists, coined the term 'Lexicon' to surmise the varied approaches and artistic processes used by the group to produce their new body of work.The Private View is from 17.00. To learn more click here.

For a quirky evening out head to Chisenhale Gallery for 7 pm where a performance by Argentinian born artist Pablo Bronstein is set to 'explore the relationship between social behaviour, architecture and ornament' as part of the Chisenhale's Interim programme. Bronstein, who often works with teams of sharply choreographed dancers, aims to highlight physcial and social spaces and their differences through mapped out bodily movements.

FRIDAY

For one night only, an evacuated townhouse off Dean street will house a group exhibition 'Swan Song' as a celebratory farewell before the building's impending demolition for the new Crossrail station. The multimedia show will feature specially commissioned pieces that are site specific and will play on the ideas of the building's domestic past and anticipate its destruction. Artists include Aidan Doherty, Alex Roberts, Katarina Forss, Amy Moffat among others. Email rowenachiu@rocketmail.com for more information or to see a street map of the location click here.

Friday will also see the Private View (6 - 11. 00 pm) of London Vox at Red Gate Gallery. This mixed media show, ambitious in scale, has been formed by some 30 London-based artists promising new approaches - painterly, photographic and sculptural - articulating ideas and associations attached to the capital. Aldis aka DJ Error will provide London inspired soundscapes throughout the evening.