Featured Project: OSCAR PISTORIUS, The Blade Runner.

September 8 at the International Paralympics Day celebrations, Trafalgar Square, London.

Lord Sebastian Coe at the unveiling of the Blade Runner bronze 

This is a totally amazing time to be alive in and one which will see Oscar breaking down the walls of tradition and making sporting history. 

Oscar gets his very own "Oscar", my gold-leaf Boy From the Block.

Prime Minister David Cameron, London Mayor Boris Johnson and Paralympians on the track outside the National Gallery.

Former Olympic sprinter Iwan Thomas and Oscar Pistorius get a first look at the Blade Runner sculpture.

 Oscar shows the sculpture to the international press and media.

My sculpture of Oscar aims to hold something of the power of the athlete in full flight. For this is how I see his running motion: as a kind of flight, somewhere between the ground and the sun. His blades mean that nothing of himself is actually in contact with the ground.

His seemingly weightless action is reflected in the colours of the bronze (sky blue), as he powers down the track at record-breaking speeds. I have tried to capture a moment in time, a frozen piece of physical history, and place in the world a document in bronze of this amazing athlete.

The sky blue patination and the gold highlight, along with Oscar's signature engraved deep into the bronze, give this scuplture a unique take on the way we look at art and sport.

Next stop London 2012.

Below you will find some of the background of the making of this piece. 

Casting the Blade Runner

Paralympian Oscar Pistorius is being immortalised in bronze to feature in an exhibition of the world's top athletes.

A plaster cast of the South African, who is known as the Blade Runner, has been taken in Manchester. Ben is to create a sculpture of the 24-year-old athlete's torso for a display at Salisbury Cathedral during London 2012.

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Turn your sound down for the foundry film of the gunmetal bronze being poured into the mould.

The sculpted plaster torso creted from the casting session.