British Council Australia is proud to support Ruha Fifita, Curatorial Assistant for Pacific Art at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, as part of the Glasgow International x British Council International Delegates Programme.

Ruha joins eight delegates from around the world for a unique opportunity to experience Glasgow International, engage with peers, and build meaningful relationships towards future collaboration.

About the International Delegates Programme

The delegation is co-hosted between Glasgow International and British Council Visual Arts, taking place Wednesday 3 to Tuesday 9 June 2026.

The programme is designed to develop scope for collaboration between Scotland-based curators, organisations, artists and organisers, and early to mid-career curators and organisers from around the world. Delegates will join from New Zealand, Senegal, Pakistan, Malaysia, Australia, Palestine, Ukraine, Turkey and the Philippines and meet the artists and curators taking part in the festival, alongside wider members of Scotland’s rich visual arts sector.

During the visit, delegates will attend Glasgow International 2026 opening week/weekend events and visit a range of projects within the festival programme. They will take part in meetings and studio visits with Glasgow-based artists, organisations and independent organisers, including sessions tailored to individual interests, and join a sharing event with representatives from the visual arts sector in Scotland. The programme also includes a visit to a Scottish arts organisation outside Glasgow, followed by post-visit evaluation.

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.

Glasgow International is Scotland's world-renowned biennial festival of contemporary art, presenting the best of local and international work for wide-ranging audiences. Taking place across the city's major art spaces and cultural institutions, the festival showcases Glasgow as a unique centre for the production and display of contemporary visual art through exhibitions, talks, performances and projects by international and Glasgow-based artists.

The 2026 edition builds on the festival's polyvocal and collective character, with no overarching theme, instead drawing on shared concerns emerging across projects: artistic experimentation, congregation, cross-cultural and cross-historical resonance, the textures and rhythms of land and water, and personal, ancestral and intergenerational memory.

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