Complex sentence: In 2001 Pardington was the Auckland Unitec Institute of Technology Artist in Residence and began a body of work examining extant collections of cultural objects or taonga (treasures) in New Zealand's museums.
Split into simpler sentences: In 2001 Pardington was the Auckland Unitec Institute of Technology Artist in Residence. It was during this year she began a body of work examining extant collections of cultural objects or taonga (treasures) in New Zealand's museums.