And here comes the third of the recent ‘Recent Work’ show, this time we catch up with Melike via an online exhibition of some of her current work. Once again hosted on the Organ magazine website, here’s the link… Cultivate Presents: Melike, Recent Work, an exhibition

Our fifth Cultivate online art exhibition of 2026, and our third in a series of Recent Work shows where we catch up with what some of our recent contributing artists have been doing over the last few months. We started off with Edgington, next came Mark Burrell and a show of work that opened in late February 2026 and here we are with a third Recent Work show, this time featuring the recent work of Melike…

This is the 205th Cultivate show. Cultivate is currently an Artist-led nomadic physical and on-line art gallery.

Melike is, as we said last time, a rather exciting painter, a rather pro-active mixed media artist who’s work, especially her drawings, constantly challenge us.

Born in Samsun, Turkey, in 1980, she spent quite some time firmly based in Istanbul before spreading out to other parts of her homeland. We’ve been aware of Melike and her work since March 2021 when she first took part in one of our Cultivate online group shows, can’t recall if she contacted us first or if we found her, however it happened. Since that first show, we’ve featured her painting, her photography, her drawing, her thrilling performance or her mixed media composition in a number of group shows. Indeed we’ve invited Melike to take part in every single Cultivate group show since the first one she took part in some five years ago.

We have said all this before, but we like the marks Melike makes, we like her commitment, the energy in her art, the way she makes her art, the mystery in her art, the intencity in the movement, the consideration, we like the sound we see in her bold marks, we like the space she occupies, we like the questions she throws out as an artist. Melike excites us… (Sean Worrall)