{"author":"Jan Brennenstuhl","categories":["Street Art"],"cover":{"alt":"Urban Flood Art: Above in Brisbane","height":840,"src":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-flood-art-above-in-brisbane/Above-Brisbane1.jpg","width":1880},"credit":"","date":"2011-01-26T15:33:52Z","description":"Well-known street artist Above got on a plane and flew to the recently flooded city of Brisbane to create a special flood stencil artwork. It’s a good example for the fact that Brisbane becomes an urban art honey pot!","html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStencil Flood\u003c/em\u003e | As I already said, the flood ravished city of Brisbane (Australia) is the new honey pot for not just graffiti artists, who \u003ca href=\"/brisbane-flood-graffiti/\"\u003epaint trains on the dead, flooded railway lines\u003c/a\u003e, but also for street artist.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA brilliant example for this street art boom in Brisbane is the new stencil artwork by \u003cstrong\u003eAbove\u003c/strong\u003e, who recently \u003ca href=\"http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/01/above-in-brisbane/\"\u003einformed my fellow RJ\u003c/a\u003e that he \u003cem\u003e“decided to immediately fly from Sydney to Brisbane to make this site specific stencil”\u003c/em\u003e. The stencil shows Noah’s ark as well as an elephant and a giraffe sinking! Above said:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI tried my best not to make fun at this drastic and horrific situation but instead to empathize and portray just how serious and large the scale of these floods had been with the relative depiction of Noah’s ark being sunk due to the floods. (Above)\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"archive-figure historical-figure\"\u003e\u003cpicture style=\"--image-width: 2600px; --image-ratio: 2600 / 1836\" data-source-width=\"2600\" data-source-height=\"1836\" data-width-cap=\"1440\" data-height-cap=\"1836\"\u003e\n  \u003csource type=\"image/avif\" srcset=\"/urban-flood-art-above-in-brisbane/Above-Brisbane_hu_5341863d144c0c95.avif 480w, /urban-flood-art-above-in-brisbane/Above-Brisbane_hu_876a61b3f9caaa9e.avif 960w, /urban-flood-art-above-in-brisbane/Above-Brisbane_hu_6b77d8510e1e760a.avif 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\"\u003e\n  \u003csource type=\"image/webp\" srcset=\"/urban-flood-art-above-in-brisbane/Above-Brisbane_hu_66a274affc0d4931.webp 480w, /urban-flood-art-above-in-brisbane/Above-Brisbane_hu_121a27f691e28523.webp 960w, /urban-flood-art-above-in-brisbane/Above-Brisbane_hu_c81fb23b4e7afbbc.webp 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg src=\"/urban-flood-art-above-in-brisbane/Above-Brisbane_hu_1c66653dd346eb50.jpg\" srcset=\"/urban-flood-art-above-in-brisbane/Above-Brisbane_hu_ceb5246979dd767c.jpg 480w, /urban-flood-art-above-in-brisbane/Above-Brisbane_hu_e5ba010f0ae97423.jpg 960w, /urban-flood-art-above-in-brisbane/Above-Brisbane_hu_1c66653dd346eb50.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1017\" alt=\"Brisbane Flood Stencil Art\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\n\u003c/picture\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eBrisbane Flood Stencil Art\u003c/figcaption\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\nPhotos by \u003ca href=\"http://goabove.com/\"\u003eAbove\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","markdown":"\n\n\n\n*Stencil Flood* | As I already said, the flood ravished city of Brisbane (Australia) is the new honey pot for not just graffiti artists, who [paint trains on the dead, flooded railway lines](/brisbane-flood-graffiti/), but also for street artist.\n\nA brilliant example for this street art boom in Brisbane is the new stencil artwork by **Above**, who recently [informed my fellow RJ](http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/01/above-in-brisbane/) that he *“decided to immediately fly from Sydney to Brisbane to make this site specific stencil”*. The stencil shows Noah’s ark as well as an elephant and a giraffe sinking! Above said:\n\n\u003e I tried my best not to make fun at this drastic and horrific situation but instead to empathize and portray just how serious and large the scale of these floods had been with the relative depiction of Noah’s ark being sunk due to the floods. (Above)\n\n![Brisbane Flood Stencil Art](\u003chttps://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-flood-art-above-in-brisbane/Above-Brisbane.jpg\u003e)\n\nBrisbane Flood Stencil Art \nPhotos by [Above](http://goabove.com/).\n","tags":["Above","Stencil Art","Australian Street Art"],"title":"Urban Flood Art: Above in Brisbane","url":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-flood-art-above-in-brisbane/"}