Joseph Rossano, Artist and Creator of The Salmon School

The promotion of a complex art and science project such as Salmon School is a unique communications challenge. Salmon School is an art project that sets out to deliberately blur existing professional, social and geographical boundaries, bringing together disparate communities across the globe for a common good. One third art exhibition, one third community advocacy, and one third environmental science, Salmon School coalesces and centres around an ideal, connecting, as with all great art, the head with the heart.

It is in understanding and making these intuitive connections that makes Claire and the Zambuni Communications team such a vital part of the Salmon School project.

A keynote presentation at the United Nations COP 26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in November 2021, Salmon School brought together stakeholders from artists, makers, scientists, and indigenous people, as well as some of the largest Atlantic and Pacific fish conservation NGOs.

Conveying the message of Salmon School across these stakeholders, to the 10,000 delegates at COP26, and to a wider public nationally and internationally, was always going to be a considerable challenge. However Claire and her team at Zambuni Communications rose to the occasion and were able to convey the pressing message of conservation and the threat of the climate crisis clearly and concisely. Their work brought tremendous benefit not only to Salmon School but also in pressing home its advocacy for environmental conservation and climate justice.

It is impossible to overstate the importance of the Zambuni team’s communications, networking and presentational skills for the Salmon School. Without their support and expertise, the game-changing exhibition at COP26 could not have been the success that it was.