Japanese artist Keizo Ushio’s granite sculpture, Oushi Zokei, Dream Lens for the Future, has been relocated to the Lake Tuggeranong foreshore.

Carved from a single piece of stone, the four-tonne granite ring was from 2012 located in the median of Northbourne Avenue, but was removed in February to make way for the construction of Light Rail Stage 2A.

Its new location between the Tuggeranong Library and the Community Centre on Cowlishaw Street was selected in consultation with the artist’s Australian representative and ArtsACT.

Ushio’s original design intention was to frame the landscape through the sculpture’s circular form and to invite people to interact with the work up close and the new garden setting places the sculpture at ground level and includes native vegetation and a seating ledge.

“A powerful piece that invites people to pause, reflect and connect with their surroundings,” is how ACT arts Minister Michael Pettersson describes it.

The ACT government has also removed Michael Le Grand’s large sculpture, Decollete, from Reed Street, Greenway, for conservation, after which it will be reinstalled near the Tuggeranong Arts Centre, joining four other public artworks within a 500-metre stretch of the lake foreshore.

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