Hot Sheet is a London-based curatorial platform dedicated to showcasing emerging artists, with a particular focus on the expanded field of photography. Founded in 2019 by artist and curator Jasper Jones, the platform emerged from his background in the photographic arts and a desire to connect with artists who explore, challenge, and redefine the role of photography within their broader practices.
Over the past six years, Hot Sheet has developed a distinctive curatorial voice through an evolving series of annual group exhibitions. These exhibitions function as iterative experiments in how photographic processes can be dismantled, reconstructed, and situated across various media, from sculpture and installation to painting, digital, and text-based work. To date, the platform has collaborated with over 50 artists, fostering a diverse, interdisciplinary community committed to reimagining and redefining visual language.
In 2022, Lauren Wells joined Hot Sheet as co-curator. With a background in art history, communications, and marketing, she introduced new curatorial interests to the platform, particularly through her focus on painting, sculpture, and installation. Alongside Jasper, she represents a shift in Hot Sheet’s evolution toward a more expansive curatorial dialogue, encouraging cross-pollination between material processes and conceptual frameworks.
In 2024, Hot Sheet was invited to curate two exhibitions at BLOKspace Leyton, a hybrid venue merging a fitness studio with a contemporary art gallery. This unconventional setting inspired a new curatorial language grounded in spatial awareness, bodily presence, and the aesthetics of wellness culture. The resulting exhibitions, Vibrations in Nature and Thres{hold}, explored themes of transformation, rhythm, and architecture, and featured works in photography, digital art, film, ceramics, sculpture, and painting. Thres{hold} also marked Hot Sheet’s first inclusion of performance art, with artist Daniel Rey presenting his Archipelago performance on the opening night.
Also in 2024, Hot Sheet worked with Ambedo to present its first solo exhibition, featuring Amy Hui Li’s latest body of work.
Under the collaborative direction of Jasper and Lauren, Hot Sheet has established itself as a dynamic and reflexive curatorial platform, continually exploring the connection between artists and their environments, as well as the dialogue between medium and meaning. Recent projects include the 2025 group exhibition Surface Tension at Fitzrovia Gallery.
Artists who have exhibited with Hot Sheet have gone on to receive international recognition, appearing at institutions such as the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía in Córdoba, the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Sevilla, La Casa Encendida in Madrid and featured in Bloomberg New Contemporaries, as well as being published in Vogue Italia.
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Jasper Jones
Curator/ Founder
Jasper Jones is a London-based curator, interior designer, and creative director with a deep-rooted passion for photography and its evolving place within contemporary art. A graduate of the University of Westminster’s Photographic Arts program, Jasper's work explores how image-making can be reimagined, deconstructed, and transformed across mediums.
Following his studies, Jasper worked at The Ravestijn Gallery in Amsterdam before joining Millennium Images in London. There, he curated online exhibitions, managed photography awards such as Peaches and Cream, and played a key role in digital strategy, catalogue design, and brand storytelling.
In 2019, Jasper founded Hot Sheet, a curatorial platform dedicated to showcasing emerging artists, with a particular focus on the expanded field of photography. Through exhibitions, publications, and events, Hot Sheet has become a space for dialogue and experimentation, featuring work that spans photography, painting, and multimedia practices.
His creative output also includes directing the short film Voice of an Other, an introspective visual work exploring identity, voice, and the tension between internal and external perception. The film reflects Jasper’s multidisciplinary approach, bringing together cinematic narrative and photographic sensibility to explore themes central to his curatorial interests.
Beyond the gallery space, Jasper has applied his creative vision to interior design, collaborating with clients on residential projects that emphasize narrative and material sensitivity. This work reflects his ability to translate curatorial thinking into lived environments, blending aesthetic awareness with practical execution.
At the heart of his practice is a belief in the emotional and intellectual power of photography, a medium he has been devoted to since childhood, as a tool for reflection, connection, and discovery.
Lauren Wells
Co-curator
As Co-curator at Hot Sheet since 2022, Lauren has supported the curation of exhibitions showcasing emerging visual artists from the UK and abroad, developing partnerships with venues, sponsors, and collectors to expand the project’s reach. Her curatorial focus on abstract painting and sculpture continues to bring a distinctive perspective to Hot Sheet.
Lauren holds a Bachelor’s degree in Art History from Amsterdam University College and a Master’s in Marketing and Communication from the University of Bologna Business School. She has worked with leading agencies in London, managing luxury and global accounts including Maybourne and Omega, delivering high-impact digital campaigns and fostering long-term client partnerships.
In addition to her curatorial work, Lauren is currently Marketing Manager at Lightroom, an immersive exhibition space in Coal Drops Yard. Known for its collaborations with leading talents across art, music, film, fashion and science, and for bringing audiences inside the worlds of David Hockney, Vogue and prehistoric landscapes, Lauren supports Lightroom by driving audience engagement and developing marketing campaigns that promote artist-led storytelling.