[13][8] The exhibition was held from 15 September to 13 October 1995 at the Islington Arts Factory (where Forrester's studio was located)[14] featured Ronald Moody (from Jamaica), Aubrey Williams (Guyana), Frank Bowling (Guyana), John Lyons (Trinidad) and Bill Ming (Bermuda), with the catalogue providing a "Historical Background Sketch" by John La Rose and Errol Lloyd.

[13] Forrester's 2018 exhibition, From Trench Town to Porthowan, at the Jackson Foundation Gallery in Cornwall from 26 May to 23 June that year, was a retrospective curated by Peter Doig and Matthew Higgs.

...It is wonderful to now see him receive international recognition for his work and for us to commemorate his contribution to Morley by naming his favourite teaching space The Denzil Forrester Studio.

"[20] In common with other early Black British artists, such as Tam Joseph and Eugene Palmer, having been born in the Caribbean and brought up in the UK Forrester reflects in his paintings a duality of cultural influences; as John Lyons observed: "Denzil's respect for tradition is a manifestation of the will to find an identity within two cultures, Afro-Caribbean and European, for both have played a vital role in his process of maturing as an artist.

[5][12] Together with its depictions of street scenes and social commentary about city life,[22] particularly dealing with the racial tensions of the 1980s in the UK,[1][23] Forrester's work has been described as "a series of historical documents related to the making of Black Britain".