The entry was inspired by a 1930s work by sculptor Rayner Hoff, at the Anzac War Memorial in Sydney's Hyde Park. Hadyn described his painting as “a meditation on war which combines the purposefulness of the military machine - represented by the grid like patterns of World War I 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.

ABC News Video of Hadyn Wilson describing the winning painting: http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2011/04/20/3197122.htm