Vanessa Tomlinson

ISEA2024

Professor Vanessa Tomlinson is the Director of the Creative Arts Research Institute at Griffith University. Vanessa’s interdisciplinary work draws on longterm engagement with experimental music practices, the development of an idiomatic percussive approach, and an improvisational language that incorporates found objects, the environment and a world of human and non-human collaborators. She has toured the world for 35 years, premiering hundreds of works, collaborating with leading improvisers, presenting work at major international festivals, and sharing her knowledge as a teacher, mentor, researcher and arts advocate. Key works include The Piano Mill, The Immersive Guitar, Clocked Out, Water Pushes Sand, The Listening Museum, Beacons and The Imaginary Aviary. Find out more at www.vanessatomlinson.com