Shock of putting up pictures on university graduate (6)
I believe the answer is:
trauma
'shock' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'putting up pictures on university graduate' is the wordplay.
'putting up' says the letters should be written backwards.
'pictures' becomes 'art'.
'on' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'university' becomes 'u'.
'graduate' becomes 'ma' (abbreviation for Master of Arts).
'art' in reverse letter order is 'tra'.
'tra'+'u'+'ma'='TRAUMA'
'of' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for trauma that I've seen before include "Extreme shock" , "hurt" , "Physical or mental shock" , "Deeply distressing or disturbing experience" , "Psychological wound" .)