A QPR-MAD disabled artist has been commissioned to build an Olympic sculpture on Shepherd's Bush Green to mark the area's rich sporting history.

Elliott Brook, 40, who lived in Bamborough Gardens before moving to Somerset, will display two rotating wooden cubes with the exact measurements of a football goal during Olympic fortnight next summer. They will circle in 90-minute cycles, going one way for 45 minutes before changing direction and turning for a further 45 minutes, to mark the duration of two halves of a football match.

Father-of-two Mr Brook, who has been in a wheelchair since suffering a stroke in 2007, was inspired after hearing about the plans to regenerate the green, as well as learning it hosted the football final in the 1908 London Olympics.

He said: "I was driving round there one day and realised what a focal point it is for the area. Traffic can see the green from all sides, making it a perfect place for a sculpture, especially as it's being smartened up.

"I never realised the green had hosted matches during London 1908 and, with QPR, Shepherd's Bush has got a real sporting history. It's a special place."

Mr Brook, who has received Arts Council funding for the Hammersmith and Fulham Council-backed project, used to be a QPR season ticket holder and remembers going to Loftus Road in the 1970s, an era which he called a golden age for football. He wants his wooden sculpture to reflect that period.

He said: "Back then the goals were made of wood and you used to be able to hear the ball smack against the frame. They still call it the woodwork now. It's a bit of a nostalgic piece and I'd love for fathers of that era to take their kids down there and reminisce."

Mr Brook has also been commissioned to create a large painting of a cube, made using holographic paint on an aluminium sheet, to mount on top of Riverside Studios in Hammersmith.

Specialising in 'time and space' conceptual work, Mr Brook was a fine art photographer before his stroke at the age of 36. He had been taken into hospital for pneumonia but when he then developed septicaemia, he was put in a drug-induced coma which caused a huge stroke.

It left him paralysed on his left side and confined to a wheelchair. His wife, Bryony, is his full-time carer.

Despite the enormous change in his life, Mr Brook, now resident artist at the University of Bristol, is philosophical. "Life goes on," he said. "It's a new chapter and, while I've lost some physical capability, I'm still as sharp as ever."

Work to refurbish Shepherd's Green is expected to start shortly, with new play areas, paths and improvements to lighting transforming the space.

FACTS:

The White City Stadium was built in 1908 for the Olympics.

It later hosted speedway, boxing, rugby league and greyhound racing and was QPR's home for two different periods.

It was demolished in 1985 for BBC White City.

FIFA laws state a goal should be 7.32m wide and 2.44m tall. The posts themselves must be 12 cm or less in diameter.

Elliott's sculptures will be open-sided timber cubes at 8.53m in length, with sides in soft wood at 45mm by 70mm softwood. They will be painted white with varnish topcoat.