Vanessa Tomlinson (born 1971)[1] is an Australian percussionist, composer, artistic director and educator.
She is Director of Creative Arts Research Institute and Head of Percussion at Griffith University and has produced 150 publications.
[5] Upon completing her degree in Adelaide, Tomlinson studied with Bernhard Wulff and Robert van Sice at Musikhochschule Freiburg, Germany.
[9][10] In 2018 Tomlinson released her debut solo album The Space Inside on Room40 on cassette tape.
[9] She was an artist-in-residence at The Smithsonian Institution as part of its 2019 Year of Music, coining the term 'soundings' "to describe the way a musician activates a place or space".