Artist · Perth, Western Australia
"Toby stole my heart the moment I placed his sad little eyes and said, 'Oh hello there.'"
I'm Angela Delury — creator of Angie's Bits n Bots. I make robot sculptures from things the world has thrown away. Each one is a character in its own right, with a story already lived inside the materials.
As an emerging artist I am constantly exploring new ways of making art so on my website you will also find my experiments in art-making as I play with a constantly evolving toolkit of mixed media materials. So much fun!!
Portfolio
Sculptures created from found, reclaimed, and recycled materials. Click any image to read the story.
Bots from $200
Meet the Artist
My Story
"Whether on stage, in front of a classroom full of kids, or in my shed, I am driven by the joy of making and the magic of imaginative transformation."
I grew up making things — it was never a career plan, just a compulsion. Performing was a career plan, so in my life as Angela Kelly (maiden name) I trained in Musical Theatre at WAAPA, worked as a professional performer across Australia and internationally, played Minty in the ABC series that earned me a WA Screen Award and AFI nomination, toured nationally with the Gordon Frost Organisation, and starred alongside Jim Henson puppets in Bambaloo — a Logie-nominated ABC/Channel 7 children's TV series.
Then I became Mum and a Music Teacher, and for many years that was where the creativity went — into my sons, my students, and school halls rather than studios and stages.
In late 2024, I gave myself a challenge: fifty robot sculptures from found and recycled materials before I turned 50. A creative dare, as much as anything else. The kind of thing I'd tried before with other projects and hadn't followed through on.
This time was different. In October 2025 I held my first solo exhibition at the Canning Bridge Community Art Space in Mount Pleasant — 50 bots, on the walls and on plinths, every single one named. Twenty-six sold. Two commissions came out of that weekend. And I won the Sculpture Award at the Wanneroo Community Art Prize.
As an emerging artist, my practise is evolving as I explore new materials and ways of composing art… always with the belief that overlooked objects have value and that transformation is always possible… and exciting.
I am thrilled about this next chapter of my creative and spiritual journey in life and hope the things I make will bring joy to many. Making them certainly brings joy to me!
Follow me on Instagram to come along for the ride: @angiesbitsnbots
Angela Delury (nee Kelly)
I'm Angela Delury (nee Kelly) — a WAAPA-trained performer, primary school music teacher, and now a practising assemblage artist based in Perth, Western Australia.
I set out to make one robot… but the pieces kept finding me and the characters were asking to emerge. This was one creative project I HAD to finish!
My work starts with noticing: the objects we discard still have shapes, weight, and histories. A vintage tin becomes a torso. A drawer handle becomes spectacles. A sieve becomes a skirt. Put the right things together and something happens — a personality emerges that wasn't planned for, only found.
This began as a personal challenge — #50botsby50, fifty robot sculptures before my 50th birthday. I completed it. Bot #50, Mele, was finished just five days before the date. Then I kept going.
New Work
Lawn-sprinkler eyes, a watering-can head and a teapot body — Bert waited patiently in the shed for weeks to be finished, and now he's ready to bring a little luck to someone's garden…
A vintage Lactogen tin, a cake-batter spoon and a nod to Sally's imaginary friend from Home and Away — Milko is childlike, excited and ready to keep you company in the kitchen…
Exhibitions & Achievements
Angela is coordinating and exhibiting in a volunteer-run artist collective at 11 Point Street, Fremantle. Angela will be exhibiting and selling her work there again from the 18th to the 20th of December. Click here for more information →
Canning Bridge Community Art Space, Mount Pleasant · October 18–19, 2025
Fifty assemblage sculptures made from found and recycled materials, coinciding with my 50th birthday. Daily artist talks at 2pm. The response was well beyond what I had expected — from the first hour of the first morning.
Angela will be opening her studio as part of Melville Open Studios in 2027 — more information soon.
Sir Rustalot has been selected as a finalist in the 2026 Ellenbrook Art Awards.
Tink has been selected as a finalist in the 2026 Melville Art Awards.
Making Time has been selected as a finalist in the 2026 City of Wanneroo Community Art Awards.
Old Couture selected as a finalist — celebrating art made from found and discarded materials.
Lilibot selected as a finalist in the City of Bayswater Art Awards 2026.
Sculpture Award 2025 — won by Toby, Bot #004, built from a vintage Toblerone tin gifted by my dad.
Selected as a finalist with Opie — a found-object art exhibition recognising work made from discarded materials.
Active Commissions
Dad (figurative, in memory) · Bike Guy (NSW) · Memorabilia Mannequin
Past Commissions
Digit (Melville Primary School) · Ben
Interested in a Commission?
I'm open to commissions — figurative, memorial, institutional, or purely personal.
Works on Paper
The same curiosity that turns forgotten objects into characters has found a new outlet: ink, paper and carved lino. Since my first printmaking course at Walyalup – Fremantle Art Centre in July 2026, I've joined the Printmakers Association of WA, sold my first print, Learning Curve, and fallen for gelli plate printing. The test prints and experiments are also finding their way into my mixed media collages. New works will appear here as they're made. Contact me directly to purchase.
From the Studio
The Hunt
A $5 bag from the tip shop. Every single piece a potential character waiting to emerge.
Workshops & Education
Coming Soon
Workshop programs are in development. If you're a school, community organisation, or arts body interested in what this could look like, get in touch.
Whether you're interested in purchasing a piece, discussing a commission, booking a workshop, or exploring an exhibition opportunity — I'd love to hear from you. I'm a real person who replies to her own emails.
Based
Perth, Western Australia
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