In 1993 Tomlinson was awarded a
recording contract with Etcetera Records, and won two awards for her percussion. Upon completing her degree in Adelaide, Tomlinson studied with
Bernhard Wulff and
Robert van Sice at
Musikhochschule Freiburg, Germany. She then moved to San Diego to complete a Masters under
Steven Schick, Since 2000 she has collaborated with her partner Erik Griswold and released several albums together as Clocked Out Duo. They won two
Green Room Awards for their collaboration
Dada Cabare in 2000, and later won the Award for Excellence by an Organisation or Individual and Queensland State Award at
2011's APRA and AMC Art Music Awards for their work as Clocked Out. In 2017 Tomlinson began a collaboration titled TOMLIN | FERGUS with Dr John Ferguson, an academic at the
Queensland Conservatorium of Music where Tomlinson also taught. In 2018 Tomlinson released her debut solo album
The Space Inside on
Room40 on cassette tape. In 2020 Tomlinson initiated the 84 Pianos: Pandemic Edition project with Erik Griswold. In October 2025, Tomlinson was announced as the new Director of the Queensland Conservatorium. ==Discography==