His winning entry was inspired by a 1930s work by sculpture Rayner Hoff whose work of the same name, Sacrifice, is at the Anzac War Memorial in Sydney's Hyde Park.
Wilson described his winning painting as "a meditation on war which combines the purposefulness of the military machine - represented by the grid like patterns of World War One trenches taken from aerial photographs - with a montage of the more chaotic and subjective dimension of sacrifice".
He said the sacrifice element showing sections of the human body were a reminder that all soldiers laid their bodies on the line in war.
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The Gallipoli art prize, which started in 2006, will continue until the 100th anniversary of the battle in Turkey in 1915.
The prize was awarded in Sydney on Wednesday by the Turkish consul-general Gulseren Celik.
