Perhaps the greatest challenge proponents of the importance of location and time in research faces us when employing these concepts in the arts. Traditionally arts have paid little heed to visualisation techniques or the importance of location. Research arguments tend to be based on qualitative sources rather than quantitative and, therefore, it is assumed lay themselves less open to spatial or temporal analysis. In fact many arts research projects do make assumptions that can be tested and framed in a context that recognised the importance of space and time. This paper examines the possibilities and challenges for such work.