Great Men Bronze Sculptures

Sir Isaac Newton, (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian and one of the most influential men in human history.

Plato (Greek:"broad")(428/427 BC – 348/347 BC), was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of natural philosophy, science, and Western philosophy. Plato was originally a student of Socrates, and was as much influenced by his thinking as by what he saw as his teacher's unjust death.

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. As the war was drawing to a close, Lincoln became the first American president to be assassinated. Before his election in 1860 as the first Republican president, Lincoln had been a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and twice an unsuccessful candidate for election to the U.S. Senate.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill,(30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a Nobel Prize-winning writer, and an artist.

Sun Yat-sen 孫中山 (12 November 1866 or 24 November 1870 – 12 March 1925) was a Chinese revolutionary and political leader often referred to as the Father of Modern China. Sun played an instrumental role in overthrowing the Qing Dynasty in 1911. He was the first provisional president when the Republic of China (ROC) was founded in 1912 and later co-founded the Kuomintang (KMT) where he served as its first leader. Sun was a uniting figure in post-Imperial China, and remains unique among 20th-century Chinese politicians for being widely revered in both mainland China and Taiwan.

Dante Alighieri, (May/June1265 – September 14,1321) was a Florentine poet of the Middle Ages. His central work, the Divina Commedia (originally called Commedia and later called Divina ("divine") by Boccaccio), is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.

Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters.His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire includes film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.

Chopin, ( 1 March 1810[1] – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He was one of the great masters of Romantic music.

You can find all these bronze sculptures inside Parkview Square.

Street Hawker

Hawking was a quick way of early immigrants with little skill or capital to earn a living. Street Hawker was thus a common sight in Singapore till 1930s when they were relocated into specially built food centres.

The sculpture show s a hawker selling home-make noodles with fish balls, a dish popular to this day. This hawker will attract customers by striking a hardwood rod against a bamboo stick, making a rhythmic “tick-tock” sound to announce his present. As such he is colloquially call a “tick-tock” man.

What Goes Around Comes Around

"Life is like a mirror where everything we do is reflected back onto us. We might not be able to recognize it and at times the image is hidden, it may even takes years and at times it may not even be during our lifetime but it all comes around."

The Force of Nature.

"We (humans) think of ourselves as supreme beings, above all others and in absolute control of our destiny and surroundings. We live in a false sense of security only to be awakened by the Mother of Nature’s fury, almost to remind us of presence and our responsibilities towards her child (the Earth)."


The above Aluminium and Stainless Steel Sculpture by Lorenzo Quinn (Spain) can be found at Marina Barrage.

Water Cycle

This unique sculpture represents the timeless and vital solar energy-driven global circulation of water.

The sculpture is driven totally by the weight of water that enters via a penstock at the top of this óvershot’ water wheel.

As water enters the buckets, the wheel having a diameter of 6 metres and weighing more than six tonnes, slowly turns the main horizontal shaft. Connected to the main shaft are four eccentric sheaves that transform the rotary motion into linear movement. Curved reccentric push-rods, rockers and connecting rods gracefully transmit the movement into hydraulically assisted titling water lift buckets that spiral up about the central granite column.

The ribbed cast bronze sculpture base emerging from the pool that acts as reservoir was inspired by the clitopilus prunus bracket fungi and appears, like in nature, to grow out from the column and creep over the adjoining escalator well.
The asymmetric gently flowing contoured forms of the cast bronze base derive from the beautiful paddy fields of the Hani Tribe carved into the granite of Ailao Mountains of South Western China.

Some forty seven crafted wooden pattern moulds and sixty one bronze castings weighing in total over 15 tonnes were used in creating this sculpture.

Water Cycle 2002 by Johathan E Minna FRSA

Commissioned by E.P.K Weatherall, Managing Director of Hong Kong Land.

Constructed by The British Engineerium Museum in Hove England.

This scuplture can be found in Raffles 1.