In Ages of Man, Temlett presents a transient self portrait, starting before life, and ending after death, reflecting through the broken shards of a mirror everything in-between. The two reflective sheet metal shards asks the question of what could come before life and after death, but also reflects the viewer looking at the piece, bringing them into the artwork. Temlett looks at the inevitability of death as influenced by the work of Damien Hirst and references Titian’s An Allegory of Prudence and The Seven Ages of Man by William Mulready.

Intelligent and superbly executed. Intelligent because we live in a post-Cubist time and yet we owe so much to that movement. Works of Art somehow have to display an awareness and an understanding of what they are in relation to the past and your image does precisely that. It displays an awareness of what we have learnt from Cubism and yet it does not ape the idiom of that movement but rather, by using a shattered glass effect, returns it to our own time and it looks and feels sparklingly new! Impressive juxtapositions, angles and details,  enhanced by the time factor of then, now and tomorrow. Clever but relevant hint at mortality in contrast to the ‘beautiful’ eye. By shattering conventional space it almost redefines the picture plane.