Beneath the surface: the stories in an artist’s Belgian home

Van Nuys shares his home with his partner, Sachli Gholamalizad, the Iranian-born actor, director and curator, and their young daughter, Rumi Aimes. Van Nuys, who is Dutch, graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in traditional printing and etching. These are skills he continues to explore alongside paintings that distort spatial perceptions. The house is filled with his works – an etching of a cowboy hat is framed inside the original wooden chimney surround, an acrylic brick floats on the landing wall, a wooden high-heeled shoe tipped with blood-red paint poses darkly on the mantle (van Nuys made it after watching a play where the protagonist kicked her husband to death).