Fifteen tonnes of solar-powered lights are behind a visually spectacular art installation by artist Bruce Munro at Uluru, set to open on April 1.

Field of Light in numbers: Weighs approximately 15 tonnes

Weighs approximately 15 tonnes Comprises more than 50,000 stems with frosted-glass spheres

Comprises more than 50,000 stems with frosted-glass spheres Takes up an area the size of four football fields

Takes up an area the size of four football fields Has travelled more than 19,000 kilometres around the world

Has travelled more than 19,000 kilometres around the world Transported to Australia over 32 international and domestic flights

The project is Munro's largest incarnation of Field of Light, which has previously been installed at London's Victoria & Albert Museum, as well as across the United Kingdom, the United States and Mexico.

Although the project debuted abroad, the idea was actually conceived at Uluru in 1992.

Munro said he always dreamed it would one day be installed at the iconic Australian rock.

"Field of Light was one idea that landed in my sketchbook and kept on nagging at me to be done," Munro said.

The idea for the project was conceived by the artist at Uluru. ( Supplied: Mark Pickthall )

"I now have the honour and privilege of returning to create an iteration of this artwork for the place that inspired it.

"A work conceived in the red desert returns to its birthplace springing from the dry ground."

The exhibition, aptly named Tili Wiru Tjuta Nyakutjaku or 'looking at lots of beautiful lights' in local Pitjantjatjara, will be in place for a full year throughout the desert's distinct seasons, and will close on March 31, 2017.