​​
Collaborating with artists, curators and institutions to smudge cultural difference and
attitudes across physical and national borders.
Pushing the programme, exploring the traffic in ideas that are nomadic, with a focus on
perceptions rather than stereotypes and assumptions.
We come to play, escape prejudice and shout for renegade values of
the unhomely, unfixable and broken.
​​
​​​​​​​​​​
​
​
Established in 2011 by Julia and Mark Waugh​​​
© Waugh Office 2026

Waugh Office was established in 2011 by Julia Waugh and Mark Waugh, as
a hybrid platform curating exhibitions, events and publications internationally.
​
© Waugh Office 2026
@johnhns
To Be It Has Nice
Out Of Print
£20

@johnhns
To Be It Has Nice
​Waugh Office Publication 2016
​
A small publication of images from the Instagram @johnhns, compiled by Julia Waugh after a dialogue with account creator who remained anonymous throughout the process. This resulting book was created via email, sampling and confusing the idea of both authenticity and authorship.
@johnhns claimed to be located on Solaris, so "To be it has nice," explored the imaginings and voyeuristic consumption that Social Media both enables and encourages.
Communication and interaction has changed since the project in 2016, AI generated content interact and manage many of our daily activities. Reality steadily evolves with technologies, as personal and leisure time move through synthetic and actual environments without notice.

"The routine of instagram postings seemed to remix the saturated motifs of hypermarkets and airport lounges. Possibly concealing a secret, signals to the others in obscure messaging on the state of things here on planet Earth. Such clear pools in sunlight almost too warm for comfort, scrolling through pictures tinted in the primary colours of excess or are those just zircon collars on the kissing borzois?
Green splash, black square a speck of dust magnified and repeated in empty rooms. Why are two dots inside a tin of paint, their edible colour make the poisonous look organic or is that how they like it over there, up there on that milky globe?
I was just thinking to be it has nice, a hiccuped poem in scrambled sentiments for a click through indifferent user. Cigarettes, fingers dry with blood, come free in eggshell blue with 9 likes on Monday.
There is so much deceit in semaphore, that shows us not how or where is the way, street signs ground control, screens to watch a world through, binary coding slack to the hardness of a soft line."
To Be It Has Nice
@johnhns
Soft Cover
Size: 20x28cm
44 pages
​
Please contact info@waughoffice.com for further information.
Waugh Office was established in 2011 by Julia Waugh and Mark Waugh,
as a hybrid platform curating exhibitions, events and publications internationally
​
​
​
​
© Waugh Office 2026.





















