ABC viewers will be very familiar with Costa Georgiadis, as the host of Gardening Australia, and now he is also the subject of an ABC radio portrait prize.
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00:00So, do you want me to water the portraits?
00:03Yeah, just give them a sprinkling.
00:05Oh, okay.
00:06Here we go.
00:07Whoa!
00:08How are you seeing all these different versions of Yu Yu Costa?
00:11Look, coming here into the foyer, up until now I've only seen them on the screen of my
00:16phone and now to actually see them in 3D and see the detail, like the timber frames that
00:24people have repurposed and the way they've put this together in that kind of recycled
00:30ethos and like a shirt that I can wear.
00:34Look, it's Bondi as well, like the details and this is almost like waves coming out of
00:41my beard.
00:42We have had entries from all over Australia.
00:47Alice Springs, a little girl in Tasmania, made your beard out of her cat's fur.
00:53That's repurposing, I love it.
00:58This is very ethereal.
00:59I know.
01:00I feel like I'm in the mists of time there, just floating away but the texture, this is
01:04like driftwood and the flowers and my hat, they've got my hat and the gnome, I mean that's
01:12just happy and funny and these are serious artworks.
01:16Unbelievable detail.
01:18And the messages that have come in with them, Kosta, about the joy and energy and love that
01:25you put out into the world, it's really quite moving.
01:31It is, it's overwhelming because I look at it and I think about the people have sat for
01:37hours and hours working on this and they're thinking about you.
01:40That's really humbling.
01:41And here you are surfing with a butterfly.
01:44A hand-lighting butterfly.
01:47It's going to be impossible to choose a winner but we have absolutely loved having all of
01:55these different versions of you.
01:57We've got hundreds and we love you, Kosta.
02:00Wow, I'm going to fill the watering can with tears, I think.
02:06It's a bit overwhelming, it really is.