Fozia Ismail (b.1980, Kuwait City, Kuwait) is a British Somali artist, founder of Arawelo Eats, and co-founder of dhaqan collective. Working across food, sound, textiles, and found objects, her practice explores migration, climate, identity, and diasporic memory through collective and material-led forms. Rooted in Somali nomadic feminist teachings, her work treats everyday cultural practices as living archives of care, knowledge, and survival. 

She has designed and delivered workshops/presentations for: Keep It Complex, Company Drinks, Serpentine Gallery, Jerwood Project Space, Tate Modern, Museum of London, National Trust -Colonial Countryside Project, Media Bounty, Barings Bank -Oxford Cultural Collective, Courtauld Art Institute, London School of Economics, Sharjah Art Foundation, Black Archives Sweden, Moderna Museet Stolkholm, Jodhpur Art Week, Art House Jersey, Wellcome Collection, Culture House, Counterpoints/British Council, Radical Ecology, and was Bristol City Fellow for Arnolfini Contemporary Art Centre in 2019 for her project Camel Meat & Cassette Tapes. Her project on Camel meat & Cassette Tapes was covered by The Guardian and BBC Africa Daily. 

For co-produced podcast on Cassette Tape Cultures with Caraboo Projects- listen here.

Her food work has been published by Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery (2017), Vittles Magazine, and Shado Magazine and has been featured on Observer Food Magazine, BBC Radio 4 Food Programme, Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery Ox Tales podcast, Food 52, London Eater, Vice Munchies, Vittles. 

Her latest work, A Song for the Xeedho- The Knot Makers was commissioned by Counterpoint Arts and Whitechapel Gallery as part of the inaugural Backyard Biennale: East, celebrating 125 years of Whitechapel Gallery. 

Featured in The London Post, Art Plugged, Selvedge Magazine, Alt-Africa, Hyphen Online, Flo London, Broadsheet London. 

A Song for the Xeedho- The Knot Makers was funded by Arts Council England.