GATHERING: Jasmine Togo-Brisby In Conversation with Pelumi Odubanjo, Ruha Fifita, and Ane Tonga

Join artist Jasmine Togo-Brisby in conversation with Pelumi Odubanjo and invited guests, as they discuss Liquid Land, Togo-Brisby’s debut European solo exhibition, alongside her wider practice.

Created in response to the architectural history of Gallery of Modern Art, Liquid Land brings together new site-specific installations and sculptural works that explore histories of enslavement and domestic labour. Tracing connections across the Pacific and Australia, and in dialogue with the transatlantic slave trade, the exhibition foregrounds the global reach of colonial industries and systems of exploitation.
This conversation will expand on the exhibition’s themes, reflecting on archival absence, material transformation, and the role of contemporary art in rearticulating histories of violence and resistance.

Jasmine Togo Brisby

Jasmine Togo-Brisby is an Australian South Sea Islander artist based in Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia. In 2015, Jasmine moved to Wellington in search of a place for South Sea identity within Pasifika dialogues. She earned her BFA in 2017 and MFA in 2022 from Massey University, Wellington.

While Jasmine has since presented several solo exhibitions and participated in many significant group shows; she is particularly proud to have been a part of group exhibitions that took South Sea identity to the global stage: the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2024–25); the Bangkok Art Biennale, Museum Siam, Thailand (2024); the Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, South Korea (2024); sis: Pacific Art 1980–2023, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2023–24); AdelaideBiennial of Australian Art: Inner Sanctum, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (2024); Wansolmoana, The Australian Museum, Sydney (2023–), and Declaration: A Pacific Feminist Agenda, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (2022).

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.

Ane Tonga

Ane Tonga is a leader in the arts sector of Aotearoa, New Zealand. Through her curatorial and governance service, she has made a significant contribution to the arts and cultural landscape of Aotearoa and the wider Pacific. Since 2020, Ane has been the inaugural Curator, Pacific Art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki where she has led an ambitious Pacific-focused programme of exhibitions, public programming and collecting.

An artist, scholar and curator, Ane specialises in gender and the politics of representation, Indigenous photographic histories and feminisms. She holds a Masters in Art History (First Class Honours), a Post-Graduate Diploma in Museums and Cultural Heritage (with distinction) from the University of Auckland , and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (with honours) from the Elam School of Fine Arts.

Ane has held leadership positions such as Lead Exhibitions Curator at Rotorua Museum Te Whare Taonga o Te Arawa and has delivered exhibition projects across Aotearoa. She is also an experience governance practitioner, having been appointed to Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa (2021–2024) by the Honorable Minister Carmel Sepuloni, serving as Deputy Chair of the Contemporary HUM Trust Board (2019 – 2021) and Chair of Auckland Council’s Rōpū Torotoro Mahi Toi Tūmatanui I Public Art Advisory Panel (2025).



Pelumi Odubanjo

Pelumi Odubanjo is a curator, writer and PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on women’s historical and contemporary vernacular photo archives across West African geographies.