Graduated with Honors in Fine Art from CCAD in 2007. "My work is a personal and narrative journey through nostalgia, the family as a unit, and our beliefs and how they affect us, they are a series of small scale oil paintings representing memories". The recipient of an extended bursary to Backwater Studios, he was also chosen for the RDS Grads Show. "Crotty has an empathy towards his subject" said Irish Times Chief Art Critic Aidan Dunne.