Becoming-Nomadic through Experimental Art Making with Children

Abstract

The author draws on her own experiences through art, along with her experiences with children, to inform her understanding of art making as nomadic thinking, a means to disrupt the power structures and boundaries that developmental psychology imposes on early childhood practice. The author altered the classrooms of two early childhood centres with an art provocation; through images and text she attempts to draw attention to the encounters between and among herself, materials, children, and environment. This article explores nomadic thought as emerging through these entanglements, interruptions, and connections with the potential to open up developmental psychology and allow for a reimagining of art practice in early childhood.