CREATIVE VICTORIA: MUSIC WORKS GRANT
GEORGIA FIELDS – THE COLLECTOR ALBUM PROJECT
SUPPORT MATERIAL
ABOUT THE ALBUM
Georgia Fields seeks funding to complete and release her fourth studio album. The Collector will be an 11-track art-pop work combining lyric-driven songwriting, chamber strings, layered vocals and textural sound design.
Georgia self-funded the recording and release of two album singles in 2026: Chameleon (April) and Night Swimming (July). This allowed Georgia to introduce audiences to the album’s evolving sound and establish early momentum; however, she does not have the resources to complete the remaining recording or deliver a full release campaign. This funding application is for the completion of the album recording (9 remaining tracks); visual assets; publicity campaign; and an accessible, all-ages album listening party in Naarm.
Inspired by Georgia’s lived experience, The Collector explores how autistic ways of perceiving and organising the world can inform songwriting. The project will create paid work for Victorian creatives, and expand Georgia’s national audience.
AUDIO EXAMPLES
Lead single Chameleon was released in April 2026 during Autism Awareness Month, introducing the album project and its themes to Georgia’s existing audience.
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Who am I, who am I
Who am I
Who?I change my shape to fit the catalyst
Reading the room, reading the script
Read it like an anthropologist
Looking for codes to encryptI wear this mask so well
So well that I can't tell
What's underneath the shell
What's under?I'm a chameleon
Who am I, who am I
Who am I
Who?Yeah it's all in my delivery
I mean what I say, I say what I mean
But it's not enough, it seems
Gotta fill it out with pleasantriesI look you in the eye
Hold tight to my disguise
I feel my heartbeat rise
I feel my -I'm a chameleon
Change my colours, change my skin
But I can't change, won't change
What's withinWho am I, who am I
Who am I
Who?
Night Swimming followed in July 2026, building momentum through strong audience engagement and radio support while further establishing the sonic and creative direction of The Collector.
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Night swimming
Violet tide
Mind brimming
Foam and fightAnd I become the static
Spleen buzzing with blind bees (it’s a)
Violent, silent somatic
Close up, tune out, fold inNight swimming
Ride the seiche
Try stimming
Bend and quakeAnd I become the sadness
Psyche at apogee
Wading through ink molasses
Close up, tune out, fold in
Close up, tune out, fold inWhat if the shadow
Is just my grief taking flight?
What is the break is
Just to let in the light?Night swimming
What if the shadow
Is just my grief taking flight?
What is the break is
Just to let in the light?Night swimming
ABOUT THIS GRANT APPLICATION
This application is for activity occurring from 1 November 2026 onwards. The funding request relates only to future project activity and does not include any costs already incurred.
This request is for:
Recording & production costs (for remaining 9 album songs)
String quartet fees
Artwork – including single and album covers, and vinyl packaging design
Publicist fees
Publicity photography
Professional video content
Vinyl manufacturing
Accessibility costs, including Auslan interpretation for the album listening party
The project budget reflects a balanced investment across artistic creation, production, accessibility and audience development.
Of the total project budget, 56% ($20,510) directly supports artists and creative practitioners, including producers, musicians, visual artists, designers and filmmakers. The project will create paid opportunities for 12 Victorian-based creatives across music, visual art, design, film and accessibility services.
The remaining investment supports essential project delivery, including publicity, manufacturing, and audience engagement. This balanced approach ensures The Collector is not only completed as a significant artistic work, but is professionally released, promoted and made accessible to audiences.
Accessibility is embedded throughout the project, including collaboration with disabled and neurodivergent creatives, consultation around accessible audience experiences, and an all-ages, Auslan-interpreted album listening party in Naarm.
EXAMPLES OF GEORGIA’S PREVIOUS WORK
Tigress, from the 2022 album Hiraeth, produced by Josh Barber. Music video produced by Heaps Stoked, featuring dancers Nikki Tarling and Liat Kedem.
Holding My Hands Out, from the 2022 album Hiraeth, produced by Josh Barber. Music video directed by Rohan Spong.
Chameleon, produced by Josh Barber. Stop-motion animated video directed by Kalindy Williams.
Funding is sought to extend this aesthetic in an animated music video for proposed album track Skeleton Key.
EXAMPLES OF KALINDY WILLIAMS’ PREVIOUS WORK
The following selections from Kalindy Williams’ visual art portfolio illustrate the style and aesthetic she will bring to Georgia’s fourth album.
MEDIA / REVIEWS
“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
“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.”