Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art
 

Ruha Fifita

Ashley Holmes smiles as he places a vinyl record onto a turntable at a table with a laptop and DJ mixer. A Glasgow International festival banner stands behind him, listing the dates 5 to 21 June.

Brian Hartley
Four women seated on a bench during an outdoor panel discussion, with audience members visible in the foreground. The woman on the left speaks into a microphone mid-gesture, beside a Glasgow International festival banner.

Brian Hartley
A woman with curly hair sits at a round outdoor table speaking into a microphone, flanked by other seated audience members, with a bottle and coffee cup on the table in front of her.

Brian Hartley
A woman with curly hair, wearing a grey tracksuit, sits speaking into a microphone during a panel discussion, with a Glasgow International festival banner behind her and a small table of flowers and drinks in front.

Brian Hartley
Wide view of an audience seated at round tables in a glass-roofed courtyard, facing a small panel discussion set up with a screen and banners in the background.

Brian Hartley

Ruha Fifita

Ruha Fifita is an interdisciplinary artist and curator based in Australia, working across the Pacific region. Born and raised in the Kingdom of Tonga, her practice is grounded in collaboration, community engagement, and Indigenous methods and materials. Through both her artistic and curatorial work, she develops projects that centre reciprocity, cultural continuity, and social change.

Ruha is Curatorial Assistant for Pacific Art at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, where she has contributed to multiple iterations of the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. She also serves as Curator-at-Large, Pacific Art, for the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in Taranaki, Aotearoa, and has been involved in the co-design of the expansive Lalaga Project, which explores Pacific cultural frameworks for exhibition-making, collective practice, and public programming.

Her freelance curatorial work includes projects with Murray Art Museum Albury and the National Portrait Gallery, guided by a commitment to long-term relationship-building, local storytelling, and shared authorship.

Projects

  • Programme
    Ruha Fifita
    Jasmine Togo-Brisby in-conversation with Ane Tonga and Ruha Fifita
    The Briggait (Wasps Studios), 72 Clyde Street, G1 5HZ
    Ashley Holmes smiles as he places a vinyl record onto a turntable at a table with a laptop and DJ mixer. A Glasgow International festival banner stands behind him, listing the dates 5 to 21 June.