GEORGIA FIELDS

Application to Creative Projects Fund 2023

Examples of Previous Work

Georgia Fields is a critically acclaimed independent singer-songwriter whose work spans art-pop, indie & modern folk.

Her third album Hiraeth was released in 2022 and received extensive airplay on PBS, 3RRR & community radio nationwide. The Australian gave Hiraeth 4 stars, praising the “meticulously crafted art-pop arrangements”. Beat Magazine said Hiraeth “beautifully encapsulates the rich complexity of the human experience.”

Georgia has supported some of Australia’s best loved artists, including Katie Noonan, Clare Bowditch, Didirri, Ella Hooper, Angie Hart (Frente), and Things of Stone and Wood. Career highlights include performances at Queenscliff Music Festival, Mullum Music Festival, Festival of Voices Tasmania, St Kilda Festival, Melbourne Music Week, Brisbane Powerhouse, Melbourne Fashion Week, National Gallery of Victoria, ACMI, and Melbourne Recital Centre.

Georgia first made her mark on the Melbourne music scene in 2007, with her EP Drama on the High Seas of Emotion. Each CD cover was lovingly handmade from vintage Little Golden Books. A string of festival shows followed, and in 2010 Georgia released her debut self-titled album: a lush, orchestral-pop opus featuring her 15-piece Mini-Indie-Orchestra (strings, brass, woodwind, tuned percussion, rhythm section, plus a cordless drill and children’s toys). The debut LP was awarded Album of the Week for ABC Radio National and Beat Magazine, and saw her perform on national television for SBS’ RocKwiz.
In the years that followed, Georgia continued to tour, write, collaborate (notably, a performance with a string quintet from the MSO for Melbourne Music Week), and graduated from Melbourne Polytechnic with a Bachelor of Music. Then in 2014, while pregnant with her first child, she began production on her sophomore album, Astral Debris, financing this independently via a successful crowd-funding campaign.
Astral Debris was released in 2016, again to critical acclaim – including a 4-star review in The Sydney Morning Herald, who described it as “alluring” and “irrepressible pop”. The Herald Sun hailed Astral Debris as “her finest, most expansive work yet”. Produced in collaboration with electronic artist/composer Tim Shiel, the album received airplay on Double J, ABC Radio National, and community radio across the country – in particular PBS FM and Triple R, who both included Astral Debris amongst their feature album shortlists.
In 2017, Georgia released Afloat, Adrift: a retrospective EP recorded live in collaboration with the Andromeda String Quartet. Raw and visceral, yet sweeping with an old-world romance, Afloat, Adrift featured new string quartet versions of material spanning her career. Frankie Magazine premiered the release, proclaiming “Georgia Fields has a voice you simply cannot un-hear… The evocative songstress paints entire worlds.”
In 2020, Georgia launched Mother Lode: an online community for musicians who are mothers. A direct response to the pandemic’s effect on both the arts sector and working mums, Mother Lode was established as a forum for musician-mothers to connect and share practical advice for maintaining a creative career (while parenting!) in a post-pandemic landscape.

Praise for Georgia Fields

“Fields' vocals float hypnotically, while meticulously crafted art-pop arrangements ruminate beneath. Fields presents each vignette of Hiraeth with vivid emotion, and a certain electricity runs across each line... Hiraeth feels like a moment of arrival.” ★★★★

— The Australian Newspaper

“Georgia's vocals take the lead dynamically as they dance between sincere and soft, to powerful and soul-moving. Beautifully composed and delivered between gritty and dainty moments, Holding My Hands Out is a testament to Georgia’s abilities as a songwriter and a vocalist.”

— Pilerats

“Georgia Fields dreams fantastic Technicolour. Her subconscious teems with breathless stuff about flying, falling and lunar possession. Darkly-coded collisions of fairytale and myth... Irrepressible pop.”

— The Sydney Morning Herald

“It’s in poised vocal and muscular percussion where Fields is in her element; when she’s off the leash yet achieving the balance of melancholy.”

— Rhythms Magazine

“A magnetic showing of fearless art-pop and searing vulnerability.”

— Ramona Magazine

“A voice you simply cannot unhear... The evocative songstress paints entire worlds with her tunes [and] the Andromeda String Quartet give the songs distinctly epic vibe.”

— Frankie Magazine

“Holding My Hands Out is less an indie-pop track than a carefully layered piece of sonic art. Each addition of an instrument is a brush stroke… Georgia’s vocals range from a breathy caress to soaring dominance.”

— The Point Music News

“Intelligent, seductive and touched by a vividly-blooming magic.”

— The Autumn Roses

“She possesses a powerful pop voice that’s at once forceful and elegant, and on Holding My Hands Out, her vocal control of the song is supreme.”

— Tone Deaf

“Her weightless vocal makes us feel airborne... Fields’ latest record Hiraeth beautifully encapsulates the rich complexity of the human experience.”

— Beat Magazine

“Holding My Hands Out is a quiet anthem.”

— TheMusic.Com.Au

“Astral Debris is her finest, most expansive work yet.”

— The Herald Sun Newspaper

Proposed Fourth Album

Singer-songwriter Georgia Fields seeks funding from Creative Victoria to write and develop 12 new songs for her fourth album: an innovative, genre-defying album that integrates elements of pop, modern-folk, indie, and experimental/art music.

For this new work, Georgia will elevate the often-overlooked narratives of women, exploring topics such as the complexities of modern motherhood, Mozart's forgotten older sister, body dysmorphia, and the nuanced experience of ageing. Drawing melodic inspiration from the striking simplicity of Billie Ellish and Sarah Blasko, Georgia will marry pop songcraft with the art-rock experimentation of Feist and Fiona Apple.

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